By James Lequeux, translated from the original Naissance, évolution et mort des étoiles, published by EDP Sciences
World Scientific
Paperback: £17
How stars form from interstellar matter, how they evolve and die, was understood only relatively recently. All of these aspects are covered in this book by Lequeux, who directed the Marseilles observatory from 1983 to 1988 and served for 15 years as chief editor of the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The text is accompanied by many images, while the theory is explained as simply as possible, but without avoiding mathematical or physical developments when they are necessary for a good understanding of what happens in stars.
