High above the Earth's hazy atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has opened up a window on the universe and is returning images and data that are amazing and astounding astronomers. It is showing sarts being born and in their final death throes. It is finding evidence of awesome black holes and new solar systems in the making. And it is peering deeper into space that ever before, looking back to a time when the universe itself was newborn. A lively commentary accompanies the stunning images in this book.
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Newton Abbot
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 265 mm
Breite: 190 mm
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978-0-7153-1642-9 (9780715316429)
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Robin Kerrod is an astronomy and space writer with a string of best-selling titles to his credit, including The Sky at Night, The Star Guide, Apollo, The Journeys of Voyager and History of NASA. He has also authored a multimedia Space Encyclopedia on CD.ROM. A Fellow both of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society, he is an avid globe-trotter, travelling to space centres and observatories, and to witness astronomical phenomena such as eclipses and comets. Robin lives near Salisbury, England.
INTRODUCTION: The new look Universe being revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope and other state-of-the-art instruments in space and on the ground, increasingly complex, increasingly mysterious 1. STARS IN THE FIRMAMENT 2: STELLAR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 3.: GREGARIOUS GALAXIES 4. THE EXPANSIVE UNIVERSE 5. SOLAR SYSTEMS 7. PLANETS IN THE SKY BACKGROUND BRIEFING... EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE MILESTONES GLOSSARY Index
