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Overview
For the past twelve billion years, galaxies have governed the Universe, bringing form to the firmament, light to the void. Each one a giant system of as many as hundreds of billions of stars, the galaxies are the building blocks of the cosmos, and through new data from modern telescopes—including the Hubble Space Telescope—we are discovering dizzying new facts about how they formed, how they evolve, and what they are made of. This book acquaints readers with these facts and findings—and with what they can tell us about the lives of galaxies over cosmic time, from their emergence shortly after the Hot Big Bang to their ongoing gyrations and transmutations.
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Science News
Waller, a professor of astronomy, teams with Hodge, editor-in-chief of Astronomical Journal, to present recent advances due largely to the advent of massive earthbound and spaceborne telescopes. In fact, these instruments now allow astronomers to detect 'galaxies so distant that we are seeing them shortly after their emergence from the din of the Big Bang,' the authors write.
Times Higher Education Supplement
Some galaxies erupt in starbursts; most contain giant black holes at their cores, each containing several million or billion times as much mass as our sun. William Waller and Paul Hodge give us a magisterial tour of these galaxies and their environment in space.
— Jay Pasachoff
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Meet the Author
William H. Waller is Investigator and Liaison for Space Scientists at NASA's New England Space Science Initiative in Education.
Paul W. Hodge is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of Astronomical Journal.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. A Galaxy Primer
1. Galaxies and the Universe
2. Form and Function
3. Galactic Anatomy
4. The Missing Mass
5. Creation and Evolution
II. Nearby Galaxies
6. The Milky Way
7. The Clouds of Magellan
8. Dwarfs of the Local Group
9. The Nearest Giants
10. Interacting and Starbursting Galaxies
11. The Most Powerful Galaxies
III. Our Galaxian Universe
12. Gauging the Galaxies
13. Clusters and Superclusters, Filaments and Voids
14. The Expanding Cosmos
15. Scenarios of Origin
16. The Cosmic Frontier
Epilogue
Selected Readings
Periodicals and Websites
Glossary
Illustration Credits
Index