UV Astronomy 2011

Boris Shustov is a director of the leading Russian astronomical institute – INASAN. He is also PI of the World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) project. Ana I. Gomez de Castro is a Professor of Astronomy of the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and PI of the ISSIS imagers of the WSO-UV project. Mikhail Sachkov is PI of the WSO-UV spectrographs. Michael Dopita is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science.

• Editorial.- Chapter 1 Planets.- Chapter 2 Stellar Physics and Evolution.- Chapter 3 Milky Way and Galaxies.- Chapter 4 UV Instrumentation.