Hubble Revisited
New Images from the Discovery Machine
Published on 6. December 2012
216 pages
978-1-4612-2232-3 (ISBN)
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Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space telescope continues to dazzle. In recent months it has discovered the most distant known galaxy and the most massive known star, and has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics: the age of the Universe, the nature of gamma-ray bursters, the discovery of extrasolar planets. In The Discovery Machine, the authors of the widely acclaimed Hubble: A New Window to the Universe bring you an exciting, detailed, gorgeously illustrated account of Hubble's breathtaking new discoveries. Acclaim for Hubble: A New Window to the Universe "Wonderful to behold. Buy it and feast your eyes." Scientific American "A wonderful volume...a clear and insightful explanation is included for each and every image." The Planetarian
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A wonderful volume...a clear and insightful explanation is included for each and every image."The Planetarian
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1. Telescopes on the Ground and in Space.- Telescopes in Orbit and NewTelescopes on Mountaintops.- The Long Road to Hubble's Launch.- In Orbit.- The First Servicing Mission.- The Second Servicing Mission.- 2. To the Edge of the Universe.- The Basic Questions of Cosmology.- A View into the Depths of Spaceand Time: The Hubble Deep Field.- The Search for Cosmic Numbers.- Searching for the Building Blocks of Galaxies.- Colliding Galaxies.- Quasars: Beacons at the Beginning of Time.- Active Galaxies: Nearby Mini-Quasars.- Gravitational Lenses: Hubble's Telephoto Lens.- Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts.- 3. Stars.- Stellar Nurseries.- Giant Stars.- Globular Clusters, White Dwarfs, and Blue Stragglers.- Still Going Strong: Supernova 1987A.- Neutron Stars.- A Festival of Colors and Shapes.- Old Couples.- 4. Planets.- Planets around Other Stars.- At the Edge of the Solar System: Pluto and Trans-Neptunian Objects.- Neptune and Uranus.- Saturn.- Jupiter's Aurorae.- Jupiter's Moons.- Asteroids.- Comets.- Mars.- 5. Hubble's Future and ItsSuccessors.- Hubble's Second Decade.- The Next Two Shuttle Visits.- Hubble's Legacy: The Data Archive.- Hubble's Successors.- Europe as Partner.- 6. Appendix.- Want to See More? (World WideWeb Addresses).- Further Reading.
