Galaxies: Interactions and Mergers

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2623. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Galaxy Formation And Evolution

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For much of the 20th century—once the vast distances to galaxies were known—galaxies were thought to be `island universes', forming and evolving in isolation with no contact between one another. In this picture, the processes which shape the galaxies we see today are uniquely determined by the initial conditions under which galaxies form and processes completely internal to the galaxies themselve...

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