An Atlas of Local Group Galaxies

An Atlas of Local Group Galaxies
Author: Paul W. Hodge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306478188

This Atlas provides a complete set of images of Local Group Galaxies (excluding the three for which identification atlases are already in print) and shows the most important objects, including many thousands of individual stars and interstellar objects. It is unique in its coverage and format and provides a source of these fundamental data that will be used for many years. Researchers, students and even amateur astronomers will be able to use the Atlas to identify and study the various components of the nearly 30 important galaxies covered by the Atlas. The objects identified on the more than 200 charts include variable stars, globular star clusters, open star clusters, stellar associations, emission regions, supernova remnants, planetary nebulae and dust clouds. Each galaxy is accompanied by an extensive bibliography.

The Galaxies of the Local Group

The Galaxies of the Local Group
Author: Sidney Bergh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2000-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139429655

The Local Group is a small cluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way. At least half of all galaxies in the Universe are thought to belong to similar groups. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive synthesis of what is known about the Local Group. It begins with a summary of each member galaxy, as well as those galaxies previously regarded as possible members. The book examines the mass, stability and evolution of the Local Group as a whole and includes many important previously unpublished results and conclusions. With clarity, Professor van den Bergh provides a masterful summary of all that is known about the galaxies of the Local Group and their evolution, and expertly places this knowledge in the wider context of on-going studies of galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic distance scale, and the conditions in the early Universe.

The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group

The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group
Author: Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642417205

This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.

The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of Galaxies

The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of Galaxies
Author: Michael König
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107189489

This reference atlas showcases around 250 beautiful galaxies within an amateur astronomer's reach and uses them to explain current astrophysical research.

Unveiling Galaxies

Unveiling Galaxies
Author: Jean-René Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2018
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1108417019

A thought provoking study of the powerful impact of images in guiding astronomers' understanding of galaxies through time.

Galaxies

Galaxies
Author: David J. Eicher
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0525574328

Tour the incredible scope of the cosmos as we know it with the editor in chief of Astronomy, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine’s archives, much of it never before published. “The natural history of the galaxies is majestic and deserves its own David Attenborough. In David Eicher, it may have just found him.”—Richard Dawkins Journey to the edges of our galaxy and beyond with one of the most widely recognized astronomy experts as your guide. Delve into the history of stargazing and space observation, learn how black holes power galaxies, and understand the classification of the different galaxy types. This illuminating book—with artful illustrations and never-before-seen space photography—will open your mind to the wonders of the universe that await.

Galaxies in the Local Volume

Galaxies in the Local Volume
Author: Bärbel Silvia Koribalski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2009-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402069332

This timely book presents an overview of the galaxies within the Local Volume, including the Local Group and our closest neighbours, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Presented here are the latest results from radio, infrared and optical surveys as well as detailed multi-wavelength studies of individual galaxies. The book aims to provide a vibrant forum for presentations and discussions across a broad range of astrophysical topics.

The Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy
Author: Paul Hodge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1992-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780792316541

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 observational puzzles because the galaxy is nearly edge-on, and many objects can be studied in detail, because they are still sufficiently bright. With the current developments in instrumentation with which increasingly detailed studies of the Andromeda Galaxy can be made, this book provides a solid foundation for the start of new observations. This book is a mine of information about M31. It can be used as a reference by insiders, and at the same time it provides easy access for newcomers to the field.

The Most Interesting Galaxies in the Universe

The Most Interesting Galaxies in the Universe
Author: Joel L Schiff
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1643270044

Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire Universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the Andromeda Galaxy and others had to lie outside our own. Moreover, based on the work of Vesto Slipher, involving the redshifts of these galaxies, Hubble was able to determine that the Universe was not static, as had been previously thought, but expanding. The number of galaxies has also been expanding, with estimates varying from 100 billion to 2 trillion. While every galaxy in the Universe is interesting just by its very fact of being, the author has selected 51 of those that possess some unusual qualities that make them of some particular interest. These galaxies have complex evolutionary histories, with some having supermassive black holes at their core, others are powerful radio sources, a very few are relatively nearby and even visible to the naked eye, whereas the light from one recent discovery has been travelling for the past 13.4 billion years to show us its infancy, and from a time when the Universe was in its infancy. And in spite of the vastness of the Universe, some galaxies are colliding with others, embraced in a graceful gravitational dance. Indeed, as the Andromeda Galaxy is heading towards us, a similar fate awaits our Milky Way. When looking at a modern image of a galaxy, one is in awe at the shear wondrous nature of such a magnificent creation, with its boundless secrets that it is keeping from us, its endless possibilities for harboring alien civilizations, and we remain left with the ultimate knowledge that we are connected to its glory.