| Description |
113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
"Readings from Scientific American." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [109]-110. |
| Contents |
The Milky Way galaxy / Bok -- The Andromeda galaxy / Hodge -- Dark matter in spiral galaxies / Rubin -- The evolution of disk galaxies / Strom and Strom -- Violent tides between galaxies / Toomre and Toomre -- Centaurus A: the nearest active galaxy / Burns and Price -- Cosmic jets / Blandford, Begelman and Rees -- Superclusters and voids in the distribution of galaxies / Gregory and Thompson -- Quasars as probes of the distant and early universe / Osmer. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Galaxies.
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| Added Author |
Hodge, Paul W.
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| Added Title |
Scientific American.
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| ISBN |
0716716755 |
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0716716763 paperback |
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