Cosmic Collisions The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies /

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 finall...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Christensen, Lars Lindberg. (Editor), Shida, Raquel Yumi. (Editor), Martin, Davide. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
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