Lars Lindberg Christensen, Davide Martin, Raquel Yumi Shida
Издательство:Springer
Год издания: 2009
Страниц: 128
ISBN:
0387938532
Формат: PDF  
Размер:73 Mб
Язык: английский
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 ... Читать дальше »