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目次

1. History and overview; 2. Ionization structure of planetary nebulae;3. Nebular line radiation; 4. Nebular continuum radiation; 5. The neutral gascomponent; 6. The dust component; 7. Observations of the central star ofplanetary nebulae; 8. Morphologies of planetary nebulae; 9. Problems andquestions; 10. Asymptotic giant branch stars - progenitors of planetarynebulae; 11. Evolution of the central stars; 12. Formation of planetarynebulae; 13. Dynamical evolution of planetary nebulae; 14. Proto-planetarynebulae - the transition objects; 15. Evolution to the white dwarfs stage;16. Distances to planetary nebulae; 17. Comparison between evolutionarymodels and observations; 18. PN in the galactic context; 19. Chemicalabundances; 20. Planetary nebulae in other galaxies; 21. Concluding remarks;Index.