Lars Lindberg Christensen, Davide De Martin, Raquel Yumi Shida

Cosmic Collisions (eBook, PDF)

The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies

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Produktbeschreibung

Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi Shida & Davide De Martin

Cosmic Collisions: The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies

Like majestic ships in the grandest night, galaxies can slip ever closer until their mutual gravitational interaction begins to mold them into intricate figures that are finally, and irreversibly, woven together. It is an immense cosmic dance, choreographed by gravity.

Cosmic Collisions contains a hundred new, many thus far unpublished, images of colliding galaxies from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

It is believed that many present-day galaxies, including the Milky Way, were assembled from such a coalescence of smaller galaxies, occurring over billions of years. Triggered by the colossal and violent interaction between the galaxies, stars form from large clouds of gas in firework bursts, creating brilliant blue star clusters. The importance of these cosmic encounters reaches far beyond the stunning Hubble images. They may, in fact, be among the most important processes that shape the universe we inhabit today.

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ISBN 978-0-387-387-93853-0

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387938554
• Artikelnr.: 37289135

Autorenporträt

Lars Lindberg Christensen ist PR-Beauftragter der Internationalen Astronomischen Union, sowie Sekretär ihrer Arbeitsgruppe für das Internationale Jahr der Astronomie 2009. Studierter Astronom, leitet er als Wissenschaftskommunikationsspezialist die Hubble European Space Agency Informationsgruppe, die für PR des Hubble Space Teleskops in Europa verantwortlich ist.

Inhaltsangabe

Galaxies: The Big Picture.- How Do Galaxies Form and Evolve?.- Galaxy Collisions.- The Colliding Galaxies Movie.- The End.- Gallery.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"The layout ... is very good with a clean easily read font printed on satin paper so it feels and looks a quality publication. As its name suggest it is a book about colliding galaxies ... . entertaining, user-friendly explanations of concepts without using jargon. The real pleasure is in the photographs ... of all types of galaxy taken with the Hubble Space Telescope are stunning. ... thoroughly recommend it. A fabulous book for the coffee table and a pleasure to browse ... ." (Darren Bushnall, Popular Astronomy, January-March, 2010)

"This large format book ... is a collection of galaxy pictures courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope. Over eighty images, all full colour and many blown up to a full page, easily make this one of the more beautiful books of the year. The text follows the evolution of galaxies ... their properties and different types, and their eventual coalescence in mergers. ... Cosmic Collisions is a decent read and you will come back to it time and time again to look at the pictures." (Keith Cooper, Astronomy Now, February, 2010)

"This field is now highly active, attracting observers and theorists ... . This book is well positioned to profit from all this. ... The authors have chosen well in both scientific and visual terms. They give a clear account of current thinking about galaxy evolution, and have selected superb images to illustrate this. The production of the images on the page is exemplary. ... ensuring that your library has a copy can hardly fail to pay dividends in terms of student interest." (Andrew King, The Observatory, Vol. 130 (1214), June, 2010)

"The book is essentially a nice picture gallery of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Merging galaxies are the building blocks of galaxy evolution. The given comments and interpretations explain the essentials of galaxy astrophysics very competent." (Johannes Viktor Feitzinger, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol.1187, 2010)