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001 2014949181
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020 $a9780387853468 (hbk : acid-free paper)
020 $a0387853464 (hbk : acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn893258644
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050 00 $aQB982$b.S54 2015
082 04 $a523.1$223
100 1 $aSheehan, William,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 10 $aGalactic encounters :$bour majestic and evolving star-system, from the big bang to time's end /$cWilliam Sheehan and Christopher J. Conselice.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSpringer,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $axiv, 385 pages :$billustrations (chiefly colored) ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520 $aWritten by William Sheehan, a noted historian of astronomy, and Christopher J. Conselice, a professional astronomer specializing in galaxies in the early universe, this book tells the story of how astronomers have pieced together what is known about the vast and complicated systems of stars and dust known as galaxies. The first galaxies appeared as violently disturbed exotic objects when the Universe was only a few 100 million years old. From that tortured beginning, they have evolved though processes of accretion, merging and star formation into the majestic spirals and massive ellipticals that dominate our local part of the Universe. This of course includes the Milky Way, to which the Sun and Solar System belong; it is our galactic home, and the only galaxy we will ever know from the inside. Sheehan and Conselice show how astronomers' understanding has grown from the early catalogs of Charles Messier and William Herschel; developed through the pioneering efforts of astronomers like E.E. Barnard, V.M. Slipher, Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble and W.W. Morgan; and finally is reaching fruition in cutting-edge research with state-of-the-art instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope that can see back to nearly the beginning of the Universe. By combining archival research that reveals fascinating details about the personalities, rivalries and insights of the astronomers who created extragalactic astronomy with the latest data gleaned from a host of observations, the authors provide a view of galaxies - and their place in our understanding of the Universe - as they have never been seen before--$cSource other than Library of Congress.
650 0 $aCosmology$vPopular works.
650 0 $aGalaxies$vPopular works.
650 7 $aCosmology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00880600
650 7 $aGalaxies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00937121
655 7 $aPopular works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423846
700 1 $aConselice, Christopher J.,$eauthor.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1516/2014949181-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1516/2014949181-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1516/2014949181-t.html