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Astrophysics

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Astrophysics is a science that applies the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena including the universe.¹² As one of the founders of the discipline, James Keeler, said, astrophysics “seeks to ascertain the nature of the heavenly bodies, rather than their positions or motions in space— what they are, rather than where they are”,³ which is studied in celestial mechanics. Astrophysics is also used when designing and plotting courses for Spacecraft.

Among the subjects studied are the Sun (solar physics), other stars, galaxies, extrasolar planets, the interstellar medium, and the cosmic microwave background.⁴⁵ Emissions from these objects are examined across all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the properties examined include luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical composition. Because astrophysics is a very broad subject, astrophysicists apply concepts and methods from many disciplines of physics, including classical mechanics, electromagnetism, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, relativity, nuclear and particle physics, and atomic and molecular physics.

In practice, modern astronomical research often involves substantial work in the realms of theoretical and observational physics. Some areas of study for astrophysicists include the properties of dark matter, dark energy, black holes, and other celestial bodies; and the origin and ultimate fate of the universe.⁴ Topics also studied by theoretical astrophysicists include Solar System formation and evolution; stellar dynamics and evolution; galaxy formation and evolution; magnetohydrodynamics; large-scale structure of matter in the universe; cosmic rays; general relativity, special relativity, and quantum and physical cosmology (the physical study of the largest-scale structures of the universe), including string cosmology and astroparticle physics.

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Footnotes

1. Maoz, Dan (2016). Astrophysics in a Nutshell. Princeton University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-1400881178. ↩

2. “astrophysics”. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-22. ↩

3. Keeler, James E. (November 1897). “The Importance of Astrophysical Research and the Relation of Astrophysics to the Other Physical Sciences”. The Astrophysical Journal. 6 (4): 271–288. Bibcode:1897ApJ…6..271K. doi:10.1086/140401. PMID 17796068. ↩

4. “Focus Areas – NASA Science”. nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2017-07-12. ↩ ↩²

5. “astronomy”. Encyclopædia Britannica. 29 May 2023. ↩

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