An Introduction to the Sun and Stars

This book is an excellent, comprehensive, but surprisingly easy to read. It is lavishly illustrated with many notes describing the science or the scientists in greater detail. I assume this book to be a standard textbook but it doesn't always feel like it. If I have any criticism it is that the paperback version is too "soft" so it needs to sit on a desk or similar to be comfortable- definitely not easy to read on the train.

Excellent. Well written. Authoritative.

An excellent source of general background knowledge to form a good foundation upon which to build. Interesting too for amateur astronomers like myself, although as a physical science graduate I sometimes found myself wanting to see more mathematics. I nevertheless very much enjoyed reading this book and am glad I bought it.

I've already given you a review on this. It was v good.

I did learn something from this book but had hoped for something on astrophysics on a similar level to Lambourne's excellent OU one on Galaxies and Cosmology, but this is more basic, (more O-level than A-level to use UK terminology). It would make an excellent gift to (say) a 16-year old interested in astronomy, for although the latest ideas of astrophysics are well-presented and nicely illustrated too - there are very good graphs and diagrams, eg of the CNO cycle - any mathematical explanation is at a most elementary level. One thing I would missing is a big Hertsprung-Russel diagram covering the evolution of the complete range of possible stellar masses, from brown dwarf to blue supergiant. I'm sure it's possible now.. Various bits appear here and there but never all in one graph.

De fácil lectura el inglés en el que está escrito. Basado en cursos universitarios de astronomía y astrofísica. Ciclo de vida y propiedades del Sol, Estrellas (sus tipos) y Agujeros Negros. Enanas Blancas, de Neutrones, Sistemas Binarios, Haces de Rγ. Cada capítulo incluye un sumario y ejercicios cuya solución se recoge al final del libro. Glosario, Tablas, fotos, apéndices (cantidades y unidades, nomenclatura, estrellas más visibles desde la Tierra, etc.) Complementando esta obra, también de la Open University " An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology" de M.H.Jones, R.J.A. Lambourne y S. Serjeant.

Are you an amateur astronomer with a scientific or technical background or bent? Would you like to study a college-level introductory astronomy text just for the fun of it? Do you wish for an approach that's not just qualitative, like the majority of American texts, which employ minimal mathematics and mostly confine their more quantitative treatments of subjects as elaborations in a box or sidebar? Do you want a book that fearlessly dives into quantitative analysis of the physics of astronomy – astrophysics – within the main text? Are you a college instructor looking for such a text? If so, and your ambitions extend into differential and integral calculus, then look for a book with "astrophysics" in its title. If you're looking for the middle road, I'd say this is the book for you. To me, it looks like astrophysics without calculus. It's lushly graphical, like all contemporary introductory texts for non-physics majors, and comprehensibly written with the neophyte in mind. But it has considerable depth and a wealth of detail, and looks to me to be a suitable text for a first course in astronomy/astrophysics pitched at those who will go on to take a major or a minor in the subject. Or for an amateur astronomer who'd take such a course if they were back at school. Parenthetically, the spiral binding is a real plus. It’s hard as the devil to get a conventionally bound textbook to lie flat on the table in front of you, or to hold in your lap, but this style is manageable in any situation.

Bien organizado y estructurado. Información gráfica muy buena. Nivel básico en determinados aspectos. Buena introducción a la heliofísica y a la astrofísica estelar.

I love astronomy, and this textbook is a great addition to my collection of books about the cosmos. Not too technical, but definitely for someone past elementary school.