What are the stars? / Ganesan Srinivasan.
The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. Although...
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Table of Contents:
- What are the stars?
- Stars as globes of gas
- Eddington's theory of the stars
- Why are the stars as they are?
- Energy generation in the stars
- Sounds of the sun
- The smoking gun is finally found.