A sweeping tour of the galaxies, from our Milky Way to infinity
Galaxies are glittering islands in the Universe, interwoven in the web
of Dark Matter From Earth's mountaintops enormous telescopes peer deep
beyond the Milky Way, while space telescopes locate majestic images, and
through seemingly miraculous technology, capture them for us to look at
and learn with amazement
Featuring the most recent, best, and even startling images with detailed
captions highlighting accessible text, Galaxies shows the restless
universe beyond our atmosphere Photographs are from more than 30 of the
world's largest ground-based telescopes, including the largest to date,
the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile Images
are also featured from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has continued
to operate long past its expected life and to astound and astonish
stargazers worldwide
Here is the glory of the galaxies:
- The Milky Way, our Galaxy -- Stellar Nurseries, Stars and Planets,
When Stars Die; In the Heart of the Milky Way; Mapping the Milky Way
- Our Galactic Neighborhood -- The Magellanic Clouds; the Andromeda
Galaxy; The Triangulum Galaxy; Satellite Galaxies
- How far away are the stars?
- The Gallery of Galaxies -- Spiral Galaxies; Barred Spiral
Galaxies; Elliptical, Lenticular and Dwarf Galaxies; Dark Matter; The
Expanding Universe
- Monsters and Black Holes -- Twisting Galaxies; Colliding Galaxies;
Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars; Supermassive Black Holes; Giant
Eyes for the Sky
- Clusters of Galaxies -- Cosmic Clusters; Gravitational Lensing;
Dark Forces; The Large-scale Structure of the Universe; Looking Back
in Time
- Birth and Evolution -- At the Edge of Space and Time; The First
Galaxies; The Beginning of the Universe; Dark Energy; Cosmology
