Presents an overview of the Hubble Space Telescope, describing its initial launch in 1990 and impact on our understanding of the universe, along with some of its latest images of galaxies, stars, planets, and nebulas.
Author: Terence Dickinson
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 1770854339
Category: Nature
Page: 300
View: 218
Presents an overview of the Hubble Space Telescope, describing its initial launch in 1990 and impact on our understanding of the universe, along with some of its latest images of galaxies, stars, planets, and nebulas.
A gallery of the most significant photographs of space as taken by the Hubble telescope explains what Hubble's achievements can tell us about the universe, its origins, and its future.
Author: Simon Goodwin
Publisher: Studio
ISBN: UOM:49015002474840
Category: Science
Page: 127
View: 916
A gallery of the most significant photographs of space as taken by the Hubble telescope explains what Hubble's achievements can tell us about the universe, its origins, and its future. Astronomy Bk Club, Lib of Science Bk Club, & Natural Science Bk Club.
Descriptions of photographs of deep space taken from satellites present a history of the birth of the universe, from the "big bang" to the formation of the planets Origins: Our Place in Hubble's Universe presents in stunning photographs ...
Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Overlook Press
ISBN: UCSD:31822025906090
Category: Science
Page: 128
View: 860
Descriptions of photographs of deep space taken from satellites present a history of the birth of the universe, from the "big bang" to the formation of the planets
While a number of books for the general public emphasise the technological accomplishments of this multi-billion dollar project or deal with the well-publicised flaw in the telescopes optics, this ground-breaking book concentrates on its ...
Author: Daniel Fischer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781461223900
Category: Science
Page: 175
View: 470
At last, a book presenting the fantastic achievements of the first five years of the Hubble Space Telescope observations! While a number of books for the general public emphasise the technological accomplishments of this multi-billion dollar project or deal with the well-publicised flaw in the telescopes optics, this ground-breaking book concentrates on its astronomical success. The authors use results and spectacular images from Hubble itself to illustrate a wide range of astronomical topics, from the great questions about the universe as a whole, to quasars and black holes, and from the life and death of stars to our planetary neighbours in the solar system. The book is rounded off with an overview of the plans for the future of this fascinating telescope. The text contains a large number of spectacular images, as well as self-contained portraits of astronomers and explanations of astronomical topics and instruments. Written in a lively style, this compendium serves as a testament to the significant role the Hubble has played in astronomical accomplishment and discovery over the past five years.
Namely, if aether exists its differential elements must recede from each other in
accord with Hubble's law of the recessional motions of the galaxies of the universe. Light propagation in a Hubble expanding aether has never been
analyzed ...
Cole, Michael D. Eye on the Universe: The Incredible Hubble Space Telescope.
Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2013. Dickinson, Terence. Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books Ltd
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Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756556433
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 64
View: 305
Photos from the Hubble Space Telescope of what was thought to be empty space may provide information on the history of the universe.
This is the story of an idea that would not die--and of the dauntless human spirit.
Author: Robert Zimmerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400834761
Category: Science
Page: 320
View: 999
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an amazing amount of work and perseverance to get the first space telescope up and running. The Universe in a Mirror tells the story of this telescope and the visionaries responsible for its extraordinary accomplishments. Robert Zimmerman takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most ambitious scientific instruments ever sent into space. After World War II, astronomer Lyman Spitzer and a handful of scientists waged a fifty-year struggle to build the first space telescope capable of seeing beyond Earth's atmospheric veil. Zimmerman shows how many of the telescope's advocates sacrificed careers and family to get it launched, and how others devoted their lives to Hubble only to have their hopes and reputations shattered when its mirror was found to be flawed. This is the story of an idea that would not die--and of the dauntless human spirit. Illustrated with striking color images, The Universe in a Mirror describes the heated battles between scientists and bureaucrats, the perseverance of astronauts to repair and maintain the telescope, and much more. Hubble, and the men and women behind it, opened a rare window onto the universe, dazzling humanity with sights never before seen. This book tells their remarkable story. A new afterword updates the reader on the May 2009 Hubble service mission and looks to the future of astronomy, including the prospect of a new space telescope to replace Hubble.
believe that the red - shift is caused by the expansion of the universe . Ageing of
quanta would be different in different spectral ranges and would produce blurring
of the images of distant galaxies and other phenomena which are not observed ...
Author: Alexander S. Sharov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521416175
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 187
View: 585
This book is the first complete account of the scientific life and work of Edwin Hubble, whose discoveries firmly established the United States as the leading nation in observational astronomy. One of the outstanding astronomers of the twentieth century, Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe. He opened the world of galaxies for science when he showed that spiral nebulae beyond the Milky Way are galaxies extending to the limits of the Universe, and participating in a general expansion of the cosmos. The exploding Universe of Hubble, now termed the Big Bang, determined the origin of the elements, of galaxies and of the stars. The second part of the book describes the fundamental discoveries on the nature of the Universe made subsequently, and thus sets his achievements in context. Written by two prominent astronomers who have built on Hubble's work, this book is a classic of science, setting out the thrilling story of the exploding Universe.
Expanding. Hubble's. vision. of. the. universe. For most astronomers, coming up
with one flash of inspiration during their professional lives would be enough, but
not Hubble. His most far-reaching discoveries were still to come. Hubble's ...
Author: Stephen Pincock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119998198
Category: Science
Page: 348
View: 432
Do you want to learn about the physical origin of the Universe, but don’t have the rest of eternity to read up on it? Do you want to know what scientists know about where you and your planet came from, but without the science blinding you? ‘Course you do – and who better than For Dummies to tackle the biggest, strangest and most wonderful question there is! The Origins of the Universe For Dummies covers: Early ideas about our universe Modern cosmology Big Bang theory Dark matter and gravity Galaxies and solar systems Life on earth Finding life elsewhere The Universe’s forecast
Indeed , from the rate the Universe is expanding ( as measured by Hubble's
constant , for example ) , we can figure out how fast the Universe would be
contracting , and when it would all be together at infinite density . Thus we can
calculate the ...
Author: Jay M. Pasachoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521469317
Category: Science
Page: 104
View: 183
This book, first published in 1994, examines the excitement and challenge of studying the most distant and powerful objects.
UNIVERSE. him and reported instead to Officer's Training Camp at Fort Sheridan,
Illinois. After training, Captain Hubble was placed in charge of training new
recruits assigned to the newly formed 85th Black Hawk Division. By December
1917 ...
Author: Paul Kupperberg
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1404203079
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 64
View: 460
Presents the life of the American astronomer, discussing his childhood and education, his discoveries about distant galaxies and the expansion of the universe, and his contribution to the big bang theory.
This book shares what Hubble has taught us about the universe and explains its top discoveries.
Author: Terence Dickinson
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 0228102332
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 80
View: 494
A beautifully illustrated, accessible beginner's guide to the Hubble Space Telescope. Acclaimed astronomer Terence Dickinson and his longtime editor Tracy C. Read team up to explore the starry treasures in our galaxy and beyond as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Since Galileo pointed his telescope at the starry night in 1609 and discovered that the hazy patch above us was not a cloud but a "river" of uncountable stars -- the Milky Way, our home galaxy -- humans have been improving on ways to understand the cosmos. We've devised ever more powerful telescopes and placed them on mountaintops, far from the bright lights of cities. But the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 was the first time we'd sent a telescope into space, beyond the distorting effects caused by looking through the Earth's atmosphere. Orbiting roughly 350 miles above Earth and circling the planet more than 5,000 times a year, Hubble has made over 1.3 million observations, revealing the vast scope of the expanding universe beyond our solar system. In The Hubble Space Telescope: Our Eye on the Universe, young readers find out how this groundbreaking telescope gathers imagery and transmits it to Earth. This book shares what Hubble has taught us about the universe and explains its top discoveries. Chapters filled with the telescope's latest photography offer insight into: stormy weather on our solar system's planets and moons and dramatic collisions in space star clusters, nebulas and the Milky Way Galaxy the Milky Way's galaxy neighbors massive black holes and dark matter planets beyond our solar system star nurseries and glimpses of distant galaxies in deep space.
Interview conducted at Hubble's house on Woodstock Road, San Marino,
California, on 8 December 1951. Language: English. In 1942 I attained United
States citizenship, and the following year I was requested to join a development
project at ...
Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198722892
Category: Science
Page: 285
View: 996
Masters of the Universe tells the fascinating story of how our modern picture of the universe came into being. It uses an unusual format - a series of fictitious interviews with leading astronomers and physicists of the time, including giants such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and George Gamow. The interviews are the product of the author's imagination, but are solidly based on historical facts and supplemented with careful annotations and referencesto the literature. By following the interviews the reader gets a lively and "almost authentic" impression of the problems that faced this early generation of cosmologists. They will learn not only about thebasic content of these new cosmological ideas, but also about their contexts and the times in which they were discussed.
Such “galactic counts” have been made by Hubble, who found, in contradiction to
the conclusions we reached in the previous section, that the space of the universe is curving in, and very fast indeed. However, Hubble's result depends
entirely ...
Author: George Gamow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486165486
Category: Science
Page: 160
View: 946
Lively and authoritative, this survey by a renowned physicist explains the formation of the galaxies and defines the concept of an ever-expanding universe in simple terms. 1961 edition. 40 figures.
However, today a durationally infinite universe is no longer a common scientific
approach.20 This conclusion is based on the following data. Hubble's Law In our universe, galaxies today are moving away from planet Earth at speeds ...
Author: Kenan B. Osborne
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781630872878
Category: Religion
Page: 198
View: 220
In the past one hundred years, two major realities have changed both science and religion. The world of science has been enriched by quantum physics, the computation of the age of the universe, archaeological data in the Middle East, and a scientific stress on historical writing. The world of religion has been enriched by the establishment of the World Council of Churches and the Second Vatican Council. In the past fifty years, major scientists and major religious leaders have met together again and again. In the past fifty years, religious leaders from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have held a number of thought-provoking conferences. In this volume, these gatherings are reviewed and evaluated. Two major religious problems have challenged the science-religion discussions, namely, which God should the scientists agree on, the Trinitarian God, Allah, or Yahweh? Which history of the universe sponsored by these three religions should scientists be looking for? This volume raises questions and suggests some preliminary forms of serious discussion.
... of reporters before a wall-sized blowup of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field,
successor to the Hubble Deep Field as the deepest portrait of the universe ever
made. He is dapper in coat and tie, his eyes twinkling behind large gold-rimmed
glasses.
Author: Jeff Kanipe
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 9780374707224
Category: Science
Page: 224
View: 168
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its title from something the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble once wrote: "Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial." The quest for Hubble's "shadows"—those unimaginably distant, wispy traces of stars and galaxies that formed within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang—takes us back, in effect, to the beginning of time as we are able to perceive it, when the first discrete stellar objects appeared out of what has lately come to be known as the "cosmic dark age." The information that is being gleaned from these dim sources—chiefly with the aid of Hubble's namesake, the Hubble Space Telescope—promises to yield clues to many cosmic puzzles, including the nature of the mysterious "dark energy" that is now believed to pervade all of space.
Details the initiation of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 and the repair and servicing missions which followed; explains the telescope's role in answering questions about the universe.
Author: Michael D. Cole
Publisher: Enslow Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 0766011208
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 48
View: 598
Details the initiation of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 and the repair and servicing missions which followed; explains the telescope's role in answering questions about the universe.
Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the rapid motion of celestial objects away from ...
Author: Edwin Powell Hubble
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300025009
Category: Science
Page: 207
View: 739
No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the rapid motion of celestial objects away from Earth. In 1935, Hubble described his principal observations and conclusions in the Silliman lectures at Yale University. These lectures were published the following year as "The Realm of the Nebulae," which quickly became a classic work.
This data and the Hubble line fits to it are the reality to which we give our greatest
attention. Fit of the Infinite Closed Universe to Hubble Line In the 1970's,
Sandage plotted a series of Hubble diagrams using the brightest galaxy in a
galaxy ...
Author: Barry Bruce
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 9781612331607
Category: Science
Page: 268
View: 439
The field equations of Einstein's General Relativity are solved for an infinite universe with uniform density. One of the three solutions, the Infinite Universe of Einstein and Newton, fits all the data for the Hubble diagram better than the Big Bang. Next, using general relativity and the physics that evolved from Newton, the force of gravity between two massive point particles is found. Utilizing this force and the Infinite Universe of Einstein and Newton model, the net force of gravity on a point particle in arbitrary motion, due the uniform mass distribution of the universe, is calculated by integration. This net force of gravity is found to be equal to the Force of Inertia. These calculations explain Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, and the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass. The middle of the book deals with the development of quantum mechanics. Here it is shown that hidden within the classical mechanics of particles there is the phase of a wave, associated with a particle, that moves at the speed of a de Broglie wave. The form of the phase of the wave is developed. Making use of the form of the phase, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a particle is setup to be solved using an integrating factor. The resulting equation is manipulated directly into the form of the Schrodinger equation. This development requires that the particle Hamilton-Jacobi equation has a solution whenever the Schrodinger equation has a solution and vice versa. The classical wave function is then shown to have exactly the same mathematical properties as the quantum mechanical wave function, including the fact that the absolute value squared of the classical wave function has the mathematical properties of a probability density. However, the interpretation that this is a probability density for the particle is shown not to hold. Lastly, the missing matter problem is resolved by showing that the dynamics and the mass of a spiral galaxy are better and more naturally explained by using ordinary physics with ordinary interacting matter than they are by postulating and using exotic weakly interacting dark matter.
Author: Erik Gregersen Associate Editor, Astronomy and Space ExplorationPublish On: 2009-12-20
An improved Cepheid period-luminosity relationship accounts for much of the
dierence between the current estimate and Hubble's.) Within a few years of this
pathbreaking research, Hubble decided to tackle one of the outstanding puzzles
...
Author: Erik Gregersen Associate Editor, Astronomy and Space Exploration
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781615300266
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 224
View: 668
Outlines the history of astronomy, from the earliest conceptions of the universe to the Copernican revolution, profiles famous astronomers, and discusses recent contributions to the field.
