Galaxy Formation: A Personal View

✍ Scribed by John Gribbin (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 86
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Stars and Galaxies....Pages 1-6
Cosmology: The Expanding Universe....Pages 7-14
The Traditional Approach: Turbulence and Gravitational Instability....Pages 15-22
Layzer’s Gravitational Clustering Hypothesis....Pages 23-27
Ambartsumian’s Fragmentation Hypothesis....Pages 28-31
Continual Creation....Pages 32-38
Newtonian Cosmology and Jeans’ Criterion....Pages 39-45
The Retarded Core Hypothesis....Pages 46-51
The Growth of Irregularities in an Expanding Universe....Pages 52-57
Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 58-63
Our Galaxy....Pages 64-67
The Present Balance and Future Prospects....Pages 68-72
Back Matter....Pages 73-79

✦ Subjects

Astrophysics and Astroparticles