Gems of Hubble
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- Jacqueline Mitton
- Stephen P. Maran, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
- Date Published: October 1996
- availability: Unavailable - out of print February 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521571005
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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.
Read more- The finest images from the Hubble Space Telescope
- Clear and concise descriptions of the images
- Selection covers all aspects of astronomy: planets, stars and galaxies
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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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- Date Published: October 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521571005
- length: 127 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 152 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.226kg
- contains: 62 colour illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print February 2000
Table of Contents
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.
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