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024 7 _a10.1007/978-0-387-85371-0
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082 0 4 _a520
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100 1 _aStruck, Curtis.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGalaxy Collisions
_h[electronic resource] :
_bForging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes /
_cby Curtis Struck.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2011.
300 _aXV, 285 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringer Praxis Books
505 0 _aPreface -- 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.
520 _aGalaxy 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.
650 0 _aSCIENCE (GENERAL).
650 0 _aASTRONOMY.
650 1 4 _aPOPULAR SCIENCE.
650 2 4 _aPOPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY.
650 2 4 _aASTRONOMY, OBSERVATIONS AND TECHNIQUES.
650 2 4 _aASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY.
650 2 4 _aCLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITATION, RELATIVITY THEORY.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSpringer Praxis Books
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85371-0
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