Colliding Galaxies

Colliding Galaxies
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 307
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781489933485
ISBN-13 : 1489933484
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Colliding Galaxies by : Barry R. Parker

Download or read book Colliding Galaxies written by Barry R. Parker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I remember sitting spellbound, watching the movie When Worlds Collide. Two planets hurled through space toward Earth while scientists and engineers frantically raced to complete a rocket ship that would take them to safety. In the final moments the spaceship lifted off as the occupants watched the Earth bulge, crack, then literally explode as one of the planets struck it. As I left the theater I wondered if it was really possible for another world to collide with Earth. Later I learned that while many catastrophic collisions no doubt occurred early in the his tory of the solar system, today they are exceedingly rare. I was relieved, but in another sense I was disappointed (not that I hoped a collision of this type would actually occur). A collision of two objects in space, say, two stars, I was sure would be a spectacular event. It is quite unlikely, however, that we will ever witness the collision of two stars. The event is just too rare. But collisions of systems of stars-galaxies-oddly enough, are relatively com mon. In fact, we see evidence of several in the sky right now.


Colliding Galaxies Related Books

When Galaxies Collide
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Lisa Harvey-Smith
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-30 - Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? W
Cosmic Collisions
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-07 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Like no other telescope ever invented, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us magnificent high resolution views of the gigantic cosmic collisions betw
The Andromeda Galaxy
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Paul Hodge
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-09 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is an attractive galaxy for astronomers. It is close to us, it is of about the size of our galaxy, it provides some intriguing obs
Colliding Galaxies
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Barry R. Parker
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

I remember sitting spellbound, watching the movie When Worlds Collide. Two planets hurled through space toward Earth while scientists and engineers frantically
When Galaxies Collide
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Wayne Lutz
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-26 - Publisher: CreateSpace

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When our Milky Way merges with the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.75 billion years, Earth will be facing even bigger problems than a cosmic collision. Two parallel world