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Title ISO science legacy : a compact review of ISO major achievements / edited by Catherine Cesarsky and Alberto Salama
Published Dordrecht ; Norwell, MA : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource ([vii], 446 pages) : illustrations
Series Space science reviews, 0038-6308 ; v. 119
Space science reviews ; v. 119. 0038-6308
Contents Crystalline Silicates; Water in Space: The Water World of ISO; Molecular Hydrogen; Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys; The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO; Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso; ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects; Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen by ISO; Debris Discs Around Stars: The 2004 ISO Legacy; Late Stages of Stellar Evolution; The Cool Interstellar Medium; High Excitation ISM and Gas; The Ice Survey Opportunity of ISO; Normal Nearby Galaxies
Obscured Activity: AGN, Quasars, Starbursts and ULIGs Observed by the Infrared Space ObservatoryThe European Large Area ISO Survey; ISO's Contribution to the Study of Clusters of Galaxies
Summary Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the branch of this discipline to come of age
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Infrared Space Observatory.
SUBJECT Infrared Space Observatory. cct
Infrared Space Observatory fast
Subject Orbiting astronomical observatories.
Infrared astronomy.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
astronomy.
astrophysics.
NATURE -- Sky Observation.
Orbiting astronomical observatories.
Infrared astronomy.
Physique.
Astronomie.
Infrared astronomy
Orbiting astronomical observatories
Form Electronic book
Author Cesarsky, Catherine J
Salama, Alberto
Infrared Space Observatory.
LC no. 2007273055
ISBN 9781402038440
1402038445
6610624542
9786610624546
Other Titles Infrared Space Observatory science legacy
Compact review of ISO major achievements