The Hubble Space Telescope's spectacular pictures of nearby planets, remote stars, and distant galaxies captured the public imagination in a way not seen since the heady days of the Apollo Space Program. In Visions of Heaven, we see their full…
Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to dazzle us. In recent months it has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics. What is the age of the…
While a number of books for the general public emphasize the technological accomplishments of this multi-million dollar project or deal with the well-publicized flaw in the telescope's optics. Hubble: A New Window to the Universe concentrates on its…
Hubble's kijk op de kosmos is het fascinerende relaas van de jongste ontdekkingsreis van de mensheid - een reis die voert van de achtertuin van onze eigen aarde tot de grenzen van ruimte en tijd.
After a disastrous start featuring a flawed optical system and a flood of negative publicity, the reengineered Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is now producing many important scientific findings. This book, coauthored by an astronomer and a science…