Download or read book The Physics of Interstellar Dust written by Endrik Krugel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-02 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interstellar dust grains catalyse chemical reactions, absorb, scatter, polarise and re-radiate starlight and constitute the building blocks for the formation of planets. Understanding this interstellar component is therefore of primary importance in many areas of astronomy & astrophysics. For example, observers need to understand how dust effects l