TY  - BOOK
AU  - Struck,Curtis
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Galaxy Collisions: Forging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes 
T2  - Springer Praxis Books
SN  - 9780387853710
U1  - 520 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - SCIENCE (GENERAL)
KW  - ASTRONOMY
KW  - POPULAR SCIENCE
KW  - POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY
KW  - ASTRONOMY, OBSERVATIONS AND TECHNIQUES
KW  - ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
KW  - CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITATION, RELATIVITY THEORY
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 underlying dynamical processes. Galaxy Collisions takes a comprehensive trip through the visually spectacular world of galaxy collisions; investigates the interactions of stars, gas clouds, and dark matter in galaxy collisions; uses analogies and metaphors to help comprehend the bizarre world of galaxies; presents recent research results to enhance the understanding of galaxy formation and evolution; includes discoveries of minor collisions within our own group of galaxies; shows how a galaxy collision might affect a solar system, or a planet like ours
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85371-0
ER  -