Exploding Superstars: Understanding Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts

by Stéphane Basa and Alain Mazure

In Exploding Superstars, Alain Mazure and Stephane Basa show how great stellar explosions have become extremely important in recent years to cosmologists trying to understand the evolution of our universe since the Big Bang and the scale of that universe. Recently supernovae and gamma-ray bursters have been used, for example, as "standard candles," illuminating their immediate environs like searchlights and allowing us to study the cosmos between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387095470
• ISBN13: 9780387095479
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Praxis Publications Inc
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.4"