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Summarizing a series of developments in a wide range of astronomy's most fundamental problems, this...
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Summarizing a series of developments in a wide range of astronomy's most fundamental problems, this year's volume emphasizes the themes of the industrialization of astronomical data in quantity, and the strategy of understanding the average by studying the extremes. The memoir this year is by Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018) on the dawn of space astronomy. Other topics include cometary chemistry and the origin of icy solar system bodies: the view after Rosetta, star clusters across cosmic time, the most luminous supernova, the faintest dwarf galaxies, relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei, and the accuracy and precision of industrial stellar abundances. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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