Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Papers from an April 1997 meeting explore recent advances in areas including galactic dynamos, probing the universe with weak lensing, nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars, physical conditions in regions of star formation, and high-energy processes in young stellar objects. Other subjects are sources of relativistic jets in the galaxy, elemental abundances in quasistellar objects, origin and evolution of the natural satellites, and far-ultraviolet radiation from elliptical galaxies. Includes a retrospective of 50 years of research at Palomar Observatory. The editor is affiliated with the University of California at San Diego. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR