Blowing Bubbles in the Cosmos

"Three astrophysicists from Leeds University diverge from many studies by focusing not on a particular source of radiation, but on a set of phenomena produced by a wide range of them. The underlying pictures required for such a study, they say, are simple, limited in type, and highly adaptable, and thus suitable to introduce non-specialists to a large swathe of astrophysics from a unifying perspective: star- forming regions, supernova, the creation of structurein the early universe, and other hot topics."--SciTech Book News"Three astrophysicists from Leeds University diverge from many studies by focusing not on a particular source of radiation, but on a set of phenomena produced by a wide range of them. The underlying pictures required for such a study, they say, are simple, limited in type, and highly adaptable, and thus suitable to introduce non-specialists to a large swathe of astrophysics from a unifying perspective: star- forming regions, supernova, the creation of structurein the early universe, and other hot topics."--SciTech Book News

• 1: The First Discoveries of Astronomical Winds 2: The Magnitudes of Astronomical Quantities 3: Stellar Evolution 4: Basic Structures of Winds and Windblown Bubbles 5: Star Formation and Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects 6: Regions of High-Mass Star Formation 7: Winds from Main-Sequence and Post-Main-Sequence Stars 8: Supernovae and Their Remnants 9: Galactic Winds, Starburst Superwinds, and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation 10: Active Galaxies and Their Nuclei 11: Some Other Windy and Explosive Sources