Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics: From Space Debris to Cosmology

Foreword.- Preface.- Space debris, optical measurements.- Meteors - light from comets and asteroids.- Extrasolar enigmas: from disintegrating and evaporating exoplanets to exo-asteroids.- Physical conditions and chemical abundances in photoionized regions.- The Common Envelope Phase.- A modern view of quantitative spectroscopy of massive OB stars.- Explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae and its observational signatures.- Is MOND the next great step forward in astrophysics?.- Low-mass and substellar eclipsing binaries in stellar clusters.- Globular cluster systems and galaxy formation.- X-ray spectroscopy of the hot atmospheric gas in clusters, groups and massive galaxies.- The establishment of the Standard Cosmological Model through observations.- GTC in the Realm of Contemporary Astronomy.- Exploiting solar visible-range observations: from flows in the solar subsurface to a flaring atmosphere.- Starburst galaxies.