Cosmic Collisions: The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies
Christensen, Lars Lindberg, de Martin, Davide, Shida, Raquel Yumi
Like no other telescope ever invented, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us magnificent high resolution views of the gigantic cosmic collisions between galaxies. Hubble's images are snapshots in time and catch the colliding galaxies in different stages of collision. Thanks to a new and amazing set of 60 Hubble images, for the first time these different stages can be put together to form a still-frame movielike montage showing the incredible processes taking place as galaxies collide and merge. The significance of these cosmic encounters reaches far beyond aesthetics. Galaxy mergers may, in fact, be some of the most important processes that shape our universe. Colliding galaxies very likely, hold some of the most important clues to our cosmic past and to our destiny. It now seems clear that the Milky Way is continuously undergoing merging events, some small scale, others on a gigantic scale. And the importance of this process in the lives of galaxies is much greater than what was previously thought.
Thể loại:
Năm:
2009
In lần thứ:
2009
Nhà xuát bản:
Springer
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
144
ISBN 10:
0387938532
ISBN 13:
9780387938530
File:
PDF, 74.52 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009
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