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A mechanism for the origin and development of spiral arms in a galaxy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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It is generally believed that the constituents of a galaxy like ours are formed from an isolated gaseous assembly at successive stages, starting from a spheroidal sybsystem down to the flattest subsystem.
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- III. SPIRAL STRUCTURE
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 84: The Large-Scale Characteristics of the Galaxy , 1979 , pp. 145 - 146
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- Copyright © Reidel 1979
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