The origins of stars and planets
Subtitle: the VLT view : proceedings of the ESO workshop held in Garching, Germany, 24-27 April 2001
By: João F. Alves, Mark J. McCaughrean (eds.).
Contributors: Alves, João F., 1968-; McCaughrean, Mark J., 1961-
Series: ESO astrophysics symposia
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Stars -- Formation -- Congresses.; Planets -- Origin -- Congresses.; Very Large Telescope (Chile) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Many important observational clues about our understanding of how stars and planets form in the interior of molecular clouds have been amassed using recent technological developments. ESO's Very Large Telescope promises to be a major step forward in the investigation of stellar nurseries and infant stars. This volume collects papers from the leaders in this very timely field of astrophysical research. It presents theoretical and a host of observational results and many papers show the plans for future observations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.