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Expanding universe : [Book] : photographs from the Hubble space telescope / Charles F. Bolden Jr., Owen Edwards, John Mace Grunsfeld, Zoltan Levay ; additional texts by Terry Edmonds and Nina Wiener ; editor, Nina Wiener ; German translations, Ronit Jariv and Armin Rest ; French translations, Anne Le Bot and Frederic Vogt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German Original language: English Publisher: Koln, [Germany] : Taschen, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783836549226 (hardback)
  • 3836549220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 520 23
LOC classification:
  • QB500.268 .E93 2015
Other classification:
  • 520
Contents:
Introductory statement -- The color of chaos -- The solar system -- The Milky Way -- Neighboring galaxies -- The local supercluster - The visible universe -- Concluding statement -- We are all starstuff -- Appendices : Distance ladder ; Glossary ; Instruments.
Summary: On the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope first being launched into low earth orbit, TASCHEN brings together some of its most breathtaking deep space images. Hubble's orbit outside the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with almost no background light. Its acute observations have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space, and simultaneously revealed whole new mysteries, like the strange "dark energy" that sees the universe expanding at an ever-accelerated rate. With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, Hubble has changed not only the face of astronomy, but also our very sense of being in the universe.
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Introductory statement -- The color of chaos -- The solar system -- The Milky Way -- Neighboring galaxies -- The local supercluster - The visible universe -- Concluding statement -- We are all starstuff -- Appendices : Distance ladder ; Glossary ; Instruments.

On the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope first being launched into low earth orbit, TASCHEN brings together some of its most breathtaking deep space images. Hubble's orbit outside the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with almost no background light. Its acute observations have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space, and simultaneously revealed whole new mysteries, like the strange "dark energy" that sees the universe expanding at an ever-accelerated rate. With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, Hubble has changed not only the face of astronomy, but also our very sense of being in the universe.

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