James B Kaler
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" James B. Kaler is professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His many books include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars and The Hundred Greatest Stars.
A breathtaking account of how the surrounding cosmos impacts life on Earth
Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you? As you gaze...
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“The Little Book of Stars” tells the story of stellar science and what the stars mean to us from a variety of perspectives. Beginning with the ‘big picture,' the book moves through progressively more and more intimate views until we feel we can hold the stars in our hands, from which we can then throw them back to the sky to see our place among them. The book opens with a summary of the events that created our Universe, the Big Bang, and then...
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