Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume.
Since then.
The emission of gravitational waves is featured due to their very recent experimental discovery.
The second aspect of the text is Space exploration which began 62 years ago with the Sputnik Earth satellite followed by the landing on the Moon just 50 years ago.
The black hole stellar endpoints are studied and geodesic motion is explored.
Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume