Slide 1Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Mo, van den Bosch & White, 2010 Galactic Dynamics, Binney & Tremaine 2008 Slide 2 Introduction Galaxy interactions are frequent…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 This animation begins with a collapsing interstellar cloud of gas and dust. Most of the material becomes part…

Slide 1 Galaxies Live in Clusters Hickson Fornax Slide 2 Coma Virgo Slide 3 Abell 2218 Slide 4 Galaxy clusters join in larger groupings, called superclusters. This is a 3-D…

Galaxy Collisions Top left is an image of the Cartwheel galaxy. The ring of young stars was likely created as a smaller galaxy passed through the disk of the larger one.…

Slide 1 Unravelling the formation and evolutionary histories of the most massive galaxies Ilani Loubser (Univ. of the Western Cape) The ages and abundances of the stellar…

Galaxies Background Billions of them in the universe Only largest telescopes can gather the light that travels from them to Earth Hubble Deep Field Relatively nearby galaxies…

Slide 1 Unravelling the formation and evolutionary histories of the most massive galaxies Ilani Loubser (Univ. of the Western Cape) The ages and abundances of the stellar…

Galactic Cannibalism: When Galaxies Collide! By Michael Rodruck A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the real battle of âstar warsâ was wreaking havoc on two galaxies.…