The life cycle of matter in the ISM, through the processes of star and planet formation, evolution, and death (adapted from S. Feng’s Ph.D. thesis; DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00018236).
The represented astronomic objects are:
Diffuse cloud (Tarantula Nebula image from HST, credit: ESA/NASA),
Dense cloud (Horsehead Nebula, credit: ESO),
Star forming region (Eagle Nebula, credit: NASA/ESA/STScI),
Super giant (V838, credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA),
Planetary nebula (NGC7293 from HST, credit: NASA/ESA),
Pulsar (X-ray of Crab pulsar from Chandra, credit: NASA/CXC/SAO),
Supernova (supernova remnant of Crab nebula from HST, credit: NASA/ESA)
by Adam Frank, ISBN-13: 978-0393935226 (public outreach level)
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Astronomy Today
by Eric Chaisson & Steve McMillan, ISBN-13: 978-0134580555 (undergraduate level)
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21st Century Astronomy
by Laura Kay, Stacy Palen, & George Blumenthal, ISBN-13: 978-0393675504 (undergraduate level)
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An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
by Bradley W. Carroll, ISBN-13: 978-1108422161 (graduated level)
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Astrochemistry:
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Astronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction To The Atomic And Molecular Physics
by Jonathan Tennyson, ISBN-13: 978-1786347077 (undergraduate level)
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Astrochemistry: from astronomy to astrobiology
by Andrew M. Shaw, ISBN-13: 978-0470091371 (undergraduate level)
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Observational Molecular Astronomy
by David A. Williams & Serena Viti, ISBN-13: (graduated level)
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Molecular Astrophysics
by A. G. G. M. Tielens, ISBN-13: 978-1107169289 (graduated and expert level)
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Dynamical Astrochemistry
by David A Williams, Thomas W. Hartquist, Jonathan M. C. Rawlings, Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini, & Serena Viti, ISBN-13: 978-1782627760 (graduated level)
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Chemical Reviews (December 2013)
Volume 113 Number 12, pubs.acs.org/CR (graduated and expert level)
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Astrobiology:
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Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology
by Muriel Gargaud, Hervé Martin, Purificación López-García, Thierry Montmerle, & Robert Pascal, ISBN-13: 978-3642225512 (public outreach level)
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An Introduction to Astrobiology
by David A. Rothery, Iain Gilmour, & Mark A. Sephton, ISBN-13: 978-1108430838 (undergraduate level)
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Interstellar medium:
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Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
by Sun Kwok, ISBN-13: 978-1891389467 (undergraduate level)
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The physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium
by A. G. G. M. Tielens, ISBN-13: 978-0521826341 (graduated level)
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Radio Astronomy:
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Tools of Radio Astronomy
by Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, & Susanne Hüttemeister, ISBN-13: 978-3642399497 (undergraduate level)
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An Introduction to Radio Astronomy
by Bernard F. Burke, Francis Graham-Smith, & Peter N. Wilkinson, ISBN-13: 978-1107189416 (undergraduate level)
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Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy
by N. M. Nrao/Nmimt Synthesis Imaging Summer School 1998 (Socorro), G. B. Taylor, C. L. Carilli, & Richard A. Perley, ISBN-13: 978-1583810057 (graduated and expert level)