Visions of the Cosmos.CAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN AND JOHN C. BRANDT Nearly 10 years ago, the authors published a book featuring the amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. images being sent back to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe. . That hook was titled Hubble Vision. NOW, they expand their scope to include not only Hubble's images, but also those of other solar system probes For a list of probes organized by functional status and mission completion, see . This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit, including planetary probes, lunar probes, solar probes and probes to asteroids and comets. and land-based telescopes, including the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory Chandra X-ray Observatory U.S. X-ray space telescope. It was named after astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and was launched into orbit in 1999. Its mirror, with an aperture of 1.2 m (4 ft) and a focal length of 10 m (33 ft), produces unprecedented resolution. , the Very Large Telescope The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. in Chile, and the twin Keck Observatories in Hawaii. Some of these telescopes' most recent and dramatic images appear on these pages, giving readers a clear view of our universe and its myriad components. Paterson and Brandt provide detailed and provocative explanations of each of the images, which they blend into a portrait of how the universe works, The authors also explain how various telescopes and space probes gather astronomical information. Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2003. CUP, 2004, 218p., color/b&w photos/illus., hardcover, $40.00. |
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