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A comprehensive yet accessible textbook introducing the nature of the rarefied matter that pervades the space between stars.

It has been more than five decades ago that Henk van de Hulst predicted the observability of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI ). Since then use of the 21-

Describing interstellar matter in our galaxy in all of its various forms, this book also considers the physical and chemical processes that are occurring within

The enormously powerful phenomena of starbursts are examined in this book. These spectacular star-forming events are seen on large scales in some galaxies, ofte

This is a comprehensive and richly illustrated textbook on the astrophysics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium--the gas and dust, as well as the elect