Images from the Hubble Space Telescope are transforming our view of the Universe. The planets of our solar system, the birth of stars, the effects of black holes, and remote galaxies are all imaged with a clarity that can only be achieved by a telescope in space. Showcased here are sixty of the finest images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Chosen for their scientific themes and their beauty, this collection includes every kind of known object in the Universe: planets, stars, swirling clouds of gas, wheeling galaxies, remote quasars and active galaxies. This representative selection is carefully chosen to show the power of the telescope and the stunning variety of astronomical objects. Noted writers Jacqueline Mitton and Stephen P. Maran have added lucid descriptions explaining the science behind the images, and the significance of the discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope. This accessible summary of the Hubble Space Telescope describes its rich discoveries in non-technical terms.
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'This superb collection of Hubble pictures, probably the best to date, comprising fifty-six astronomical objects and six other pictures including the HSP itself, and explanatory illustrations, is to be highly recommended.' Irish Astronomical Journal
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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978-0-521-57100-5 (9780521571005)
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Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
1. The HST released in space; 2. Replacing HST's solar arrays; 3. Removing HST's old camera; 4. Star images before the HST's first servicing mission; 5. Star images after the HST's first servicing mission; 6. Springtime on Mars; 7. The clouds of Venus; 8. Jupiter; 9. Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon; 10. Saturn; 11. Storm on Saturn; 12. Dynamic Neptune; 13. Pluto and Charon; 14. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 a year before impact; 15. The fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9; 16. Impact scars on Jupiter, July 1994; 17. Asteroid Vesta; 18. Newborn stars emerge in the Eagle nebula; 19. The Orion nebula; 20. Jets from young stars; 21. The disk around Beta Pictoris; 22. The heart of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae; 23. Two star clusters in the large magellanic clouds; 24. Radcliffe 136: An extraordinary star cluster; 25. Star cluster R136 in its setting; 26. The spectra of two stars in the cluster R136; 27. The fate of the massive star R136a5; 28. Nova Cygni 1992 in May 1993; 29. Nova Cygni 1992 in January 1994; 30. Eta Carinae: supernova in the making; 31. AG Carinae: a luminous blue variable star; 32. The 'Cat's Eye' planetary nebula; 33. Planetary nebula N66 in the large magellanic cloud; 34. Supernova 1987A in August 1990; 35. Supernova 1987A in ultraviolet light,1994; 36. Supernova 1987A's outer rings; 37. Filaments in the Crab nebula; 38. Details of filaments in the Crab nebula; 39. The Pulsars and the Wisps in the Crab nebula; 40. The Cygnus loop Supernova remnant; 41. The center of a giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 1275; 42. The cartwheel galaxy; 43. Colliding galaxies, NGC 7252; 44. Markarian 315, a Seyfert galaxy; 45. The Quasar PKS 2349; 46. The center of the giant elliptical galaxy M87; 47. The jet of M87 in ultraviolet light; 48. The gas disk at the heart of M87; 49. Evidence for a black hole in M87; 50. The center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4261; 51. The Einstein cross; 52. Quasar QSO 1208+101; 53. Gravitational lensing by the galaxy cluster AC114; 54. Galaxy cluster Abell 2218 as a cosmic 'zoom lens'; 55. Cepheid variable stars in the galaxy IC 4182; 56. The spiral galaxy M100 in the Virgo cluster; 57. A Cepheid variable star in the galaxy M100; 58. Galaxies of long ago; 59. Galaxies: looking back through time.
