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Astrophysics in 2005
We bring you, as usual, the Sun and Moon and stars, plus some galaxies and a new section on astrobiology. Some highlights are short (the newly identified class of gamma-ray bursts, and the Deep Impact on Comet 9P/ Tempel 1), some long (the age of the universe, which will be found to have the Earth at its center), and a few metonymic, for instance the term "down-sizing" to describe the evolution of star formation rates with redshift
Astrophysics in 2005
The fastest pulsar and the slowest nova; the oldest galaxies and the youngest
stars; the weirdest life forms and the commonest dwarfs; the highest energy
particles and the lowest energy photons. These were some of the extremes of
Astrophysics 2006. We attempt also to bring you updates on things of which
there is currently only one (habitable planets, the Sun, and the universe) and
others of which there are always many, like meteors and molecules, black holes
and binaries.Comment: 244 pages, no figure