When Galaxies Collide

Author: Wayne Lutz
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480194335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
When our Milky Way merges with the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.75 billion years, Earth will be facing even bigger problems than a cosmic collision. Two parallel worlds confront an uncertain future, while an astrophilosopher and a modern shaman struggle with decisions that will establish the fate of intelligent beings throughout the colliding spiral arms. Worlds separated by thousands of light-years are suddenly thrust together in challenges humans have never imagined.

When Galaxies Collide

Author: Wayne J. Lutz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927438046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
When our Milky Way merges with the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.75 billion years, Earth will be facing even bigger problems than a cosmic collision. Worlds separated by thousands of light-years are suddenly thrust together in challenges humans have never imagined.

Cosmic Collisions

Author: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387938559
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
Like no other telescope ever invented, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us magnificent high resolution views of the gigantic cosmic collisions between galaxies. Hubble's images are snapshots in time and catch the colliding galaxies in different stages of collision. Thanks to a new and amazing set of 60 Hubble images, for the first time these different stages can be put together to form a still-frame movielike montage showing the incredible processes taking place as galaxies collide and merge. The significance of these cosmic encounters reaches far beyond aesthetics. Galaxy mergers may, in fact, be some of the most important processes that shape our universe. Colliding galaxies very likely, hold some of the most important clues to our cosmic past and to our destiny. It now seems clear that the Milky Way is continuously undergoing merging events, some small scale, others on a gigantic scale. And the importance of this process in the lives of galaxies is much greater than what was previously thought.

When Galaxies Collide

Author: Lisa Harvey-Smith
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522873200
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn’t a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can see what generations of people before us have wondered at and weaved stories around. But all that will change. The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour. When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth and its inhabitants. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life? Learn how to watch this space. * 9,000, but only half of that from any given point on Earth. ** 38,000 degrees vs 3,000.

When Galaxies Collide

Author: William James Borchert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974219400
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description

When Galaxies Collide

Author: Lisa Harvey-Smith
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN: 9780522876512
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A book about space interspersed with fun anecdotes about an astronomer's life. In 2018 the author, Lisa Harvey-Smith, was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. In this book Harvey-Smith answers questions like: Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye? (9,000, but only half of that from any given point on Earth). How much hotter are blue stars than red ones? (38,000 degrees vs 3,000). Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can see what generations of people before us have wondered at and weaved stories around. But all that will change. The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour. When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth and its inhabitants. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life?

Colliding Galaxies

Author: Barry R. Parker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489933484
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
I remember sitting spellbound, watching the movie When Worlds Collide. Two planets hurled through space toward Earth while scientists and engineers frantically raced to complete a rocket ship that would take them to safety. In the final moments the spaceship lifted off as the occupants watched the Earth bulge, crack, then literally explode as one of the planets struck it. As I left the theater I wondered if it was really possible for another world to collide with Earth. Later I learned that while many catastrophic collisions no doubt occurred early in the his tory of the solar system, today they are exceedingly rare. I was relieved, but in another sense I was disappointed (not that I hoped a collision of this type would actually occur). A collision of two objects in space, say, two stars, I was sure would be a spectacular event. It is quite unlikely, however, that we will ever witness the collision of two stars. The event is just too rare. But collisions of systems of stars-galaxies-oddly enough, are relatively com mon. In fact, we see evidence of several in the sky right now.

When Galaxies Collide

Author: mike mahoney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532905292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
typewriter scribblings

When Galaxies Collide

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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The Andromeda Galaxy

Author: Paul Hodge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792316541
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
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.