This introduction to basic practical tools, methods and phenomena in quantitative astronomy covers topics across a wide range of areas, from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Clear presentations of the ...

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In doing so, the authors manage to sneak in a lot of fundamental astronomy, ensuring that their readers will come away with a good basic understanding of how stars and the universe form and evolve.

To get your family in an astronomy mood, you can start by encouraging a dinner-table discussion of how many astronomy names everyone can come up with from popular culture (household products ...

Learn what you could see in the night sky with no equipment from the Royal Observatory Greenwich; from galaxies and meteor showers to comets, star clusters, cloud formations and more ...

The book is divided into six sections: the first introduces an overview of star formation and the essential language, concepts and tools specific to molecular astronomy studies. Each subsequent ...