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Stellar Populations
Kruit, Piet C. Van Der (University Of Groningen, And Director Of Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands); Gilmore, Gerry
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Paperback. Proceedings of the 164th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, August 15--19, 1994 Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia (Closed). Num Pages: 472 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 870.
The concept of Stellar Populations has played a fundamental role in astronomy in the last few decades. It was introduced by Walter Baade after he was able to resolve the Andromeda Nebula and its companions into stars when he used red-sensitive plates and realised that there were two fundamentally different Herzsprung-Russell diagrams in our and these nearby galaxies (common stars in the solar neighborhood versus globular clusters). This result was published in two papers in 1944 in volume 100 of the Astrophysical Journal. Subsequent research gave the concept a much firmer basis and at the famous Vatican Symposium of 1957 ... Read more
The concept of Stellar Populations has played a fundamental role in astronomy in the last few decades. It was introduced by Walter Baade after he was able to resolve the Andromeda Nebula and its companions into stars when he used red-sensitive plates and realised that there were two fundamentally different Herzsprung-Russell diagrams in our and these nearby galaxies (common stars in the solar neighborhood versus globular clusters). This result was published in two papers in 1944 in volume 100 of the Astrophysical Journal. Subsequent research gave the concept a much firmer basis and at the famous Vatican Symposium of 1957 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Series
International Astronomical Union Symposia (Closed)
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792335382
SKU
V9780792335382
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