Mystery of Stars

This is a book specialized to introduce stars, including the environment, origin, evolution and vanishes of stars. To attract teenagers, personified words such as born, grow, die etc. were used.


In fact, this book is a serious scientific book. Everything is based on facts and observation data, and according to some scientific laws, a lot of interesting results were deduced. References were referred in related parts for further reading.


In cases of imagines from the authors, words like guess, possible and hypothesis were used. Readers can think and ask “why is it?” If it is not, what it will be then? Indeed, there were too many interesting things. At the same time, too many things were not clear and need to be known by us.


This book wishes to attract more people, especially teenagers to pay attention to these shining stars.

Sample Chapter(s)
Physical Foundation (183 KB)
Components of the Book:
  • FRONT MATTER
  • Chapter 1: Physical Foundation
    • 1.1. Physical World
    • 1.2. Mass
    • 1.3. Energy
    • 1.4. Space and Time
    • 1.5. Special Relativity
    • 1.6. Wave, Doppler Effect
    • 1.7. Blackbody Radiation
    • 1.8. Characteristic Spectrum
  • Chapter 2: Surroundings
    • 2.1. Sun
    • 2.2. Measurement of Distance of Celestial Bodies
    • 2.3. The Galaxy
    • 2.4. Our Surroundings
  • Chapter 3: Born of Stars
    • 3.1. Classic Theory
    • 3.2. Phase Space
    • 3.3. New Equation
    • 3.4. Embryo of Stars
    • 3.5. Formation of Galaxies
  • Chapter 4: Evolution of Stars
    • 4.1. Hertzsprun Russel Diagram
    • 4.2. Classic Model
    • 4.3. Status of Stars
    • 4.4. Probability of Nuclear Fusion of the Sun
    • 4.5. Structure of the Sun at Present
    • 4.6. Expansion that Ends the Main Sequence Period
    • 4.7. Variable Stars
    • 4.8. Inference
    • 4.9. One Degree of Freedom
    • 4.10. Life of Stars
    • 4.11. Nova Supernova
    • 4.12. Cepheid Variable
    • 4.13. Age of Stars
    • 4.14. Big Smelting Furnace that Produces Elements
    • 4.15. Strong and Weak Points of a New Model
    • 4.16. History of Solar Evolution
  • Chapter 5: Death of Stars
    • 5.1. White Dwarf
    • 5.2. Pulsar
    • 5.3. Black Hole
  • BACK MATTER
    • Terms
    • Appendix CV of the Authors
Readership: Teenagers, people who are interested in astronomy and physics, scholars etc.
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FRONT MATTER
Banggu Zhang, Bangning Zhang
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Chapter 1: Physical Foundation
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Chapter 2: Surroundings
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Chapter 3: Born of Stars
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Chapter 4: Evolution of Stars
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Chapter 5: Death of Stars
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BACK MATTER
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Banggu Zhang (Biography), Department of Physics of Jilin University; Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute; Science Press

Bangning Zhang (Biography), committee of experts on the field of ground radiation testing

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