About this title: Shadow of a Star commemorates the 10th anniversary of a supernova explosion. The author, a leading member of a prize-winning team of astrophysicists who followed the event, explains in everyday language its significance for scientists. The book tells the story of a single experimental discovery, how neutrinos carry the news of the death of a star in another galaxy, and explains how that news was intercepted by scientists on earth and what are its far-reaching implications.
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : W. H. Freeman & Company, 1997 1997-02
Date Published: 1997-02
ISBN-13:9780716730972ISBN:0716730979
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Like New. Dust Jacket Included Fine in fine jacket. Ex-library but with minimal library markings and no card pocket. ---InstaShip Books Normally Ships within 24 Hours, often, Same Day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : W. H. Freeman & Company, 1997, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780716730972ISBN:0716730979
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Fine/Fine. read more
Description: Mann, Alfred K. SHADOW OF A STAR; THE NEUTRINO STORY OF SUPERNOVA 1987A. NY: W.H. Freeman, c1997. 1st printing, 210pp, 8vo, b/w and color ill and photos, new in d/w, . read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Freeman Pub., NY, NY
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Small 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 210 pages with glossary, index and bibliography, color photos; binding tight, dj very good. read more
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company, New York, 1997 0716730979
ISBN-13:9780716730972ISBN:0716730979
Description: VG/VG. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. a lovely clean copy. "Neutrinos are electrically neutral, possibly massless, subatomic particles whose theorized existence was resoundingly confirmed in 1987. These little buggers are significant as possible arbiters of the destiny of the universe as well as the fate of individual stars. Physicist Mann is a key scientist in the detection of neutrinos from the supernova seen in 1987, and he describes the design of the device--a water tank sited deep in ... read more
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