The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 24–27 April 2001

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 in...

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Other Authors: Alves, Joao F. (Editor), McCaughrean, Mark J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:ESO Astrophysics Symposia, European Southern Observatory
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XXVII, 515 p. 345 illus., 3 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9783540460312