White Dwarfs: The Future of the Universe

You are holding the first book in Russian almost entirely dedicated to the cooling relics of stars known as white dwarfs. In fact, the fate of becoming such inhabitants of cosmic space awaits almost every star, except for the most massive ones. The history of the discovery of white dwarfs and their study spans decades, and the author not only describes their physical nature and many paradoxical properties in detail but also tells about the scientists who devoted their lives to these objects of the vast cosmos. In addition to information about supernova stars and cosmological problems related to white dwarfs, readers will become acquainted with the history of radio astronomy, learn about the discovery of pulsars and quasars, about the first detection, origin, and properties of microwave cosmic background radiation and its role in the study of the Universe.