Cosmic clouds
Subtitle: birth, death, and recycling in the galaxy
By: James B. Kaler.
Publisher: Scientific American Library; Distributed by W.H. Freeman and Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Galaxies.; Stars.; Astrophysics.
Description: Studies the clouds of interstellar space, considering the process by which new stars are formed, looking at how star birth generates planets and perhaps life, and studying how the deaths of stars begins the process anew.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243) and index.