Red Giants and White Dwarfs - The Evolution of Stars - Planets and Life

200 Pages·1967·31.709 MB·English

by  Robert Jastrow

THE EVOLUTION OF STARS, PLANETS AND LIF
Director Goddard Institute for Space Studies
15.95
RED GIANTS
AND
WHITE DWARFS
Robert Jastrow
Robert Jastrow follows man's origins
beyond our tree-dwelling ancestry, back
across the threshold of life into the world
of nonliving matter. His book is the scien-
tific story of creation.
Red Giants and White Dwarfs displays
the mind of a mancapable ofunifying and
enlivening the central ideas of science. The
author blends acrisp style with an unusual
selectionofphotographs toreveal thebirth
and death of stars and planets and the
emergenceofintelligentlife.Theprospects
for life on other planets and the chances
for contact with intelligent beings in other
solar systems are discussed. The author's
observations of Rutherford, Darwin, Urey,
and other pioneer scientists add a compel-
ling human element to t>e story.
This book is one of thos^ great rarities
inscience and literature—a lucid and fasci-
nating scientific discussion of the most
fundamentalquestionsregardingtheorigin
of the world.

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THE EVOLUTION OF STARS, PLANETS AND LIFE
ROBERT JASTROW
BY
DIRECTOR, GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES
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To my parents
with love