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The Road to Galaxy Formation
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This revised and updated second edition deals solely with the processes and results of galaxy formation, a subject usually discussed only briefly as a subfield of cosmology
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Written from an observational perspective
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Discusses the theories for galaxy formation and shows where each theory either succeeds or fails in explaining what we actually observe
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Draws on the most recent observations of galaxies in the early universe, obtained by the very latest ground- and space-based telescopes
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Looks ahead to what we may expect to uncover about the epoch of galaxy formation from the new and upcoming generations of telescopes and technology
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First edition received gleaming reviews in Nature, New Scientist, Astronomische Nachrichten
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Professor Keel has been teaching the course for years at the University of Alabama and in Leiden, Netherlands
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