Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Nuclear astrophysics: defence and illustration
- 2 Light from atoms, light from the sky
- 3 Visions
- 4 Contents of the sky: atomic sources and fountains
- 5 Nuclear suns
- 6 Sociology of stars and clouds
- 7 Histories
- 8 Ancient stars in the galactic halo
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Invisible matter and energy
- Appendix 2 Supernovas and cosmology
- Appendix 3 Explosions
- Appendix 4 Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Appendix 5 Galactic evolution
- Appendix 6 Key dates
- Appendix 7 Constants and units
- Appendix 8 Websites
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Sociology of stars and clouds
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Nuclear astrophysics: defence and illustration
- 2 Light from atoms, light from the sky
- 3 Visions
- 4 Contents of the sky: atomic sources and fountains
- 5 Nuclear suns
- 6 Sociology of stars and clouds
- 7 Histories
- 8 Ancient stars in the galactic halo
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Invisible matter and energy
- Appendix 2 Supernovas and cosmology
- Appendix 3 Explosions
- Appendix 4 Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Appendix 5 Galactic evolution
- Appendix 6 Key dates
- Appendix 7 Constants and units
- Appendix 8 Websites
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Stellar AlchemyThe Celestial Origin of Atoms, pp. 105 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003