Hubble Atlas of Galaxies [Hardcover]

Allan Sandage (Author)

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• Hardcover: 141 pages
• Publisher: Carnegie Inst of Washington (September 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872796299
• ISBN-13: 978-0872796294
• Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 11.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,240,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In the early part of this century Edwin Hubble and Alan Sandage did groundbreaking work in the study of galaxies. This volume, published by Sandage after Hubble's untimely death in 1961, is the classic text which defines Hubble's classification scheme for galaxies.

This book marks the birth of galactic morphology or the classification of galaxies by their visual shape. More current works are critical of the Hubble classification scheme because it is based on one dimension: the physical shape. There are newer classification schemes based on factors like star formation, chemical composition and spectrographic features but the Hubble system remains the most widely used and recognized.

According to the Smithsonian/NASA Astronomy Abstract Service, the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies is cited by 1060 scientific papers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.