Table of Contents

Two great astrophysicists - some personal reflections, H.C.Van de Hulst; the Shlovsky phenomenon, N.S.Kardashev; words about Pikel'ner, L.S.Marochnik; reflections on the Soviet American VLBI programme, K.I.Kellermann; the secrets of the solar atmosphere, H.Zirkin; escape processes in planetary atmospheres, V.S.Strelnitskii; decametric radioastronomy, V.I.Moroz; new developments in cosmic gas dynamics, A.A.Buchkov; observational evidence for magnetic fields in the galaxy and galaxies, R.Wielebinski; recombination radio lines, R.L.Sorochenko; cosmic masers - yesterday, today, tomorrow; gravitational collapse of massive stars, supernovae, and SN 1987A in the large megallanic cloud; radio emission from supernovae, V.I.Slysh; stellar winds and supernovae, in the interstellar medium, T.A.Lozinskaya; X-ray astronomy, H.Fridman; quasars and active galactic nuclei, B.V.Komberg; a lucky chance for cosmology, V.N.Lukash and I.D.Novikov; the last love, I.L.Rosenthal; searching for planetary systems, B.F.Burke; space radio interferometry and gravitational waves, V.B.Braginsky, et al; radioastronomy of the next century, Yu.N.Parijskij; on astronomy for the 21st century, N.S.Kardashev.

About the Author

Dean F. Smith, N.S. Kardashev

Reviews

"In the real life world, horizons are limited by what is feasible with the money available. It is refreshing every now and then to be freed of that constraint and to appreciate what might then become possible. Kardashev is an expert guide to these very ambitious projects, presenting his ideas within the imaginative tradition of his two great forebears, Pikel'ner and Shklovsky."
-New Scientist