' However, by 1995 concern had arisen among those who used the text as a reference for graduate seminars and courses that the book would need to be updated to stay abreast of the discoveries and progress in this rapidly evolving field. The primary goal of the ASI was in fact to produce a book which 'would simultaneously provide a broad and systematic overview of, as well as a rigorous introduction to, the fun damental physics and astronomy at the heart of modern research in star formation and early stellar evolution. The book was based on a series of lectures delivered by a distinguished group of leading researchers at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in May 1990 on the island of Crete, Greece. As originally intended, the volume had proved to be a useful 'text' book for graduate astronomy courses and seminars which dealt with topics related to stellar origins. The author gives updates in theory, fragmentation, dust, and circumstellar disks and emphasizes and strengthens the targeting of graduate students and young researchers, focusing more on computational approaches in this edition.Ī few years after the publication of The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, we received a request from the publisher for an up dated second edition of this popular reference book. Many more colour images illustrate attractive old and new topics that have evolved in recent years.

As indicated by the new title two new chapters have been included on proto-planetary disks and young exoplanets. Recent advances and contemporary research on the theory of star formation are explained, as are new observations, specifically from the three great observatories of the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory which all now operate at the same time and make high resolution space based observing in its prime. Several sections devoted to key analysis techniques demonstrate how modern research in this field is pursued and new chapters are introduced on massive star formation, proto-planetary disks and observations of young exoplanets. It illustrates how these processes reveal themselves from radio wavelengths to high energy X-rays and gamma–rays, with special reference towards high energy signatures. This new, substantially updated and extended edition of Norbert Schulz’s unique book 'From Dust to Stars' describes complex physical processes involved in the creation and early evolution of stars.

Starburst regions in nearby and distant galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the early universe. Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

From Dust To Stars by Norbert S. Schulz