The Chemical Cosmos: A Guided Tour

by Steve Miller

Book Overview

Prologue.- Purple haze: introducing our guide.- The early universe: the source of chemistry - and of our guide.- Shooting the rapids: the life, and death, of the earliest starlight.- Interlude - how our guide is hooked, lost and caught again.- Heading downstream and cooking by starlight.- Fishing for molecules.- Branching out: in the land of the giants and dwarves.- Interlude - trawling for our cosmic guide.- In the delta: exoplanets - worlds, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441984437
• ISBN13: 9781441984432
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"