TY - BOOK AU - Manchado,Arturo AU - Stanghellini,Letizia AU - Schönberner,Detlef ED - International Astronomical Union. ED - International Astronomical Union. TI - Planetary nebulae: an eye to the future : proceedings of the 283rd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Perto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, July 25-29, 2011 T2 - IAU symposium proceedings series, SN - 9781107019836 (hbk.) AV - QB855.5 .I67 2011 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Nébuleuses planétaires KW - Étoiles KW - Planetary nebulae KW - Congresses N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; session 1. New results from observations -- session 2. The stellar evolution connection -- session 2a. Through the AGB and beyond -- session 2b. Aspects of the PN phase -- session 2c. Aspects of the central stars -- session 3. The cosmic population of galactic and extragalactic PNe -- session 4. Future endeavors in the field N2 - "Planetary nebulae play a key role in stellar evolution as an important fraction of stellar matter in the Universe goes though the asymptotic giant branch and planetary nebula phases in its lifetime. They are major contributors to the chemical enrichment of galaxies, especially for nitrogen and carbon. They also act as multi-wavelength laboratories for understanding atomic, molecular, dust, and plasma processes in different astrophysical environments, and for studying the dynamics and mass distributions of galaxies. IAU Symposium 283 brought together experts from a variety of countries to present new results including: those from IPHAS and HERSCHEL; the detection of fullerenes in our galaxy and its neighbors; a new catalogue of about 600 planetary nebulae spectra; and the latest three-dimensional models of the common envelope phase. This volume is an essential reference for all those specializing in planetary nebulae research."--Cover p. [4] ER -