Galaxy Formation

Galaxy Formation
ISBN-10
3540840567
ISBN-13
9783540840565
Series
Galaxy Formation
Category
Science
Pages
738
Language
English
Published
2009-09-02
Publisher
Springer
Author
Malcolm Longair

Description

Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems – how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology". What’s more, he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with direct information about the physics of the very early Universe.

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