Download or read book Astronomie spatiale infrarouge, aujourd'hui et demain Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow written by F. Casoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school "Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow". It gives a wide overview of infrared astronomy, a wavelength domain crucial for studies of the solar system, stars at the beginning and end of their lives, interstellar matter and galaxies at all distances. Recent developments in observational techniques have been tremendous. The first contributions give an introduction to the basic physical processes and methods of detection and data processing. They are followed by a series of lectures dealing with the wide variety of astronomical objects that can be seen in the infrared.