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Stars and Atoms

by Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Expanded from an evening discourse to the British Association at Oxford in 1926, these three lectures explain what goes on inside a star. Eddington covers interior temperatures, ionised atoms, radiation pressure, the opacity of stellar matter and the relation of brightness to mass, then turns to calcium clouds drifting between the stars.

Lucid popular astrophysics from one of the great scientific explainers of the twentieth century. Download the free EPUB.

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