In this book, we will give a brief and up-to-date introduction to the lives of galaxies — how they were born, evolve over time, and collide — using the best pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Many of these images are from a huge investigation of luminous infrared galaxies called the GOALS project (Great Observatory All-sky LIRG Survey, goals.ipac.caltech.edu). The Hubble observations were led by Aaron S. Evans from Stony Brook University (U.S.).

More information about the book is available on http://www.cosmiccollisions.org/.

Features:

• Hardcover
• 142 pages
• Publisher: Springer
• More than 80 high-resolution photographs
• Similar in style to the popular Hubble — 15 years of discovery
• Aimed at laypeople
• Size: 251 mm (W) x 300 mm (H)
• In English

ISBN-10: 0387938532
ISBN-13: 978-0387938530

Credit: Written by Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi Shida and Davide De Martin.