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Stars and Clusters

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1979

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    Contents

    vii
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    All the World’s a Stage–The Galaxy

    1
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    Merely Players–Meet the Hyades

    16
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    The Food of the Stars

    30
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    First the Infant–The Pre-Main-Sequence Stage

    45
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    Creeping like Snail–The Main Sequence

    63
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    Leaving the Main Sequence

    75
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    The Bubble Reputation–Supergiants

    96
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    Sighing like Furnace–The Cepheid Variable

    110
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    The Red Giant

    128
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    The Oldest Open Clusters

    137
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    Open Clusters and the Structure of the Galaxy

    146
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    The Globular Clusters

    156
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    Metal-Rich Globular Clusters and Red Variable Stars

    166
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    Globular Clusters and Short-Period Variables

    178
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    Last Scene of All?

    198
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    Finale–Pas de Deux

    202
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    Star Atlas

    233
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    Acknowledgments

    254
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    General Index

    255
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    Index of Stars

    257
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    Index of Clusters and Galaxies

    260
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eBook published on:
October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674423770
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1979
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674423763
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Reprint 2014
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262
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This book is in the series
Harvard Books on Astronomy
This book is in the series
Volume 9 | Harvard Books on Astronomy
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674423770
eBook ISBN: 9780674423770
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674423763
Keywords for this book
Stars.; Stars -- Clusters.
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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