By Francoise Combes, Patrick Boisse, Alain Mazure, Alain Blanchard, M. Seymour
Distinctive in its breadth of insurance and point of presentation, this textbook presents extra at the nature of galaxies, extragalactic items, the large-scale constitution of the Universe, and cosmology than comes in normal textbooks on astronomy. It continues to be, besides the fact that, available to complicated undergraduate scholars. a number of chapters are dedicated to all the following: the type and morphology of galaxies; the galactic interstellar medium; galactic kinematics; elliptical, spiral, and barred spiral galaxies; the interactions among galaxies; extragalactic radio assets, quasars and their line spectra, and different energetic galactic nuclei; the formation of galaxies; the Universe as an entire; and cosmology.
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