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Galaxy Collisions Forging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes /
Galaxy collisions are the key process in building galaxies, triggering the formation of stars and the build-up of heavy elements that allow the formation of planets and solar systems. This book presents the revolutionary research advances achieved in the last decade and lucidly explains the underlyi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Colección: | Popular Astronomy,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter1: Exploring the world of galaxies
- Chapter 2: Head-on collisions and rings of fire
- Chapter 3: Swinging on by: the tidal twists
- Chapter 4: Major mergers and their colossal consequences
- Chapter 5: What happens to the little guy: minor mergers
- Chapter 6: The secret of fire: triggered star formation
- Chapter 7: Not always in a galaxy far, far away
- Chapter 8: A wider view
- Chapter 9: Epilogue: the galacto-biology of collisions
- Glossary
- Resources
- Index.