Dust in the Universe
Subtitle: Similarities And Differences (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: June 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789812562937
Subjects: Galaxies, clusters, intergalactic matter; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Cosmology; Cosmic dust; Interstellar matter; Poussiáere cosmique
First sentence: Study of the dust particles in the universe is an exciting and challenging area of current astronomy.
Description: "The comprehensive study presented in this book provides a much needed critical analysis of different types of dust in the universe. The information derived from presolar grains from comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles as well as the relevant laboratory studies are discussed. This should help in our goal of understanding the evolution of dust with cosmic time."--BOOK JACKET.