The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View
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Author(s): J. Alves and M. McCaughrean (Eds)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 3540435417
Format: hardback + CD-ROM
515pp
Price: £35.00, $49.95, €49.95
Review Date: 13 November 2002
Review: The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile promises to allow scientists to investigate nurseries and infant stars, enabling them to examine how planets and stars form in the cold interiors of molecular clouds. These are the 63 papers from the conference held in Potsdam in April 2001 (The CD-ROM includes the papers as well as 56 posters.). The conference bought together scientists from the star and planet community to put forward their theoretical and observational results and share their ideas of the scientific breakthroughs that they hope to see in the next few years.