Full title: Hubble vision : astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope / Carolyn Collins Petersen and John C. Brandt.

Author/creator: Brandt, John C, Petersen, Carolyn Collins.

Date: 1995..

Call Numbers: TQ064315

Record Identifier: 74VMxR06qx6X

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xx, 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., 1. Space Telescope: the dream and the reality. First light, first frustrations. How the mistake was made. HST's place in history. Building HST. The Space Telescope Science Institute. Launch, deployment and 'attitude shift'. Memories of a mission. First light again -- 2. Observing the universe. Astronomy and light. Astronomy: the observational science. How HST does astronomy. The HST science instruments. Observing with HST -- 3. HST and the Solar System. Pre-HST exploration. Hubble's dynamic Solar System. HST and comets -- 4. Stars and the interstellar medium. The lives of stars. Chemical abundances in the interstellar medium. Newborns in space. HST and the stellar zoo. Stellar death throes -- 5. Galaxies. The evolution of galaxies. Individual galaxies. Quasars. Collisions between galaxies -- 6. Cosmology. Cosmological distances. The expanding universe and the Standard Model. Dark matter. HST and cosmology. Where are we now?

Publishers: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-247) and index. Transferred from NQ522.2919/1.

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DDC: 522.2919

MMS ID: 991002684319702626