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Stardust; Supernovae and Life -- The Cosmic Connection

9780300084191

Stardust; Supernovae and Life -- The Cosmic Connection

  • ISBN 13:

    9780300084191

  • ISBN 10:

    0300084196

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 09/10/2000
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

A history of the connection between the stars and the formation of planets, the Earth, and all life as we know it. Beginning with the disovery in the 1920's that stars were composed of helium and hydrogen to the seminal work of the 1950's and 1960's which revealed how fusion works inside stars and beyond to the modern discussions of supernovae. DLC: Cosmochemistry.

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