Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / J. Craig Wheeler.
| Author/creator | Wheeler, J. Craig |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xviii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Subjects |
| Partial contents | Setting the stage: star formation and hydrogen burning single stars -- Stellar death: the inexorable grip of gravity -- Dancing with stars: binary stellar evolution -- Accretion disks: flat stars -- White dwarfs: quantum dots -- Supernovae: stellar catastrophes -- Supernova 1987A: lessons and enigmas -- Neutron stars: atoms with attitude -- Black holes in theory: into the abyss -- Black holes in fact: exploring the reality -- Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the universe: long, long ago and far, far away -- Supernovae and the universe -- Wormholes and time machines: tunnels in space and time -- Beyond: the frontiers. |
| General note | Previous ed.: 2000. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2007277434 |
| ISBN | 9780521857147 |
| ISBN | 0521857147 |