TY - GEN AU - Casoli, F. [Ed.] AU - Lequeux J. [Ed.] AU - David, F. [Ed.] ED - Colloque d’Astrophysique de l’Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 15th : TI - Astronomie Spatiale Infrarouge, Aujourd'Hui Et Demain Infrared Space Astronomy: Today And Tomorrow: 3-28 August 1998 SN - 9783540673866 U1 - 523.8 PY - 2000/// CY - Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin KW - Cosmology KW - Astronomy KW - Astrophysics and Astroparticles KW - Space Science KW - Observations and Techniques N2 - This book brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school "Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow". It gives a wide overview of infrared astronomy, a wavelength domain crucial for studies of the solar system, stars at the beginning and end of their lives, interstellar matter and galaxies at all distances. Recent developments in observational techniques have been tremendous. The first contributions give an introduction to the basic physical processes and methods of detection and data processing. They are followed by a series of lectures dealing with the wide variety of astronomical objects that can be seen in the infrared ER -