001479400 000__ 04802nam\a22007335i\4500 001479400 001__ 1479400 001479400 003__ DE-B1597 001479400 005__ 20231026035025.0 001479400 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479400 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479400 008__ 220629t20222003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479400 020__ $$a9780674275966 001479400 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674275966$$2doi 001479400 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)626028 001479400 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479400 0410_ $$aeng 001479400 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479400 072_7 $$aSCI004000$$2bisacsh 001479400 1001_ $$aO'Dell, C. Robert, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479400 24514 $$aThe Orion Nebula :$$bWhere Stars Are Born /$$cC. Robert O'Dell. 001479400 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2022] 001479400 264_4 $$c©2003 001479400 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001479400 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479400 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479400 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479400 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479400 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPreface -- $$tCHAPTER ONE Enter the Hunter -- $$tCHAPTER TWO Views of Our Universe -- $$tCHAPTER THREE Henry Draper and the Photographic Revolution -- $$tCHAPTER FOUR The Toolbox of the Astronomer -- $$tCHAPTER FIVE Opaque Skies on the Clearest Nights -- $$tCHAPTER SIX Why Is a Star a Star? -- $$tCHAPTER SEVEN Bengt Stromgren's Spheres -- $$tCHAPTER EIGHT The Explorers Set Sail -- $$tCHAPTER NINE Where Did All These Stars Come From? -- $$tCHAPTER TEN The Hubble Space Telescope -- $$tCHAPTER ELEVEN What Orion Really Looks Like -- $$tCHAPTER TWELVE What Is Happening in the Orion Nebula? -- $$tCHAPTER THIRTEEN Are We Alone? -- $$tCHAPTER FOURTEEN Outsmarting the Fickle Goddess of Science -- $$tIndex 001479400 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479400 520__ $$aThe glowing cloud in Orion's sword, the Orion Nebula is a thing of beauty in the night sky; it is also the closest center of massive star formation--a stellar nursery that reproduces the conditions in which our own Sun formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The study of the Orion Nebula, focused upon by ever more powerful telescopes from Galileo's time to our own, clarifies how stars are formed, and how we have come to understand the process. C. Robert O'Dell has spent a lifetime studying Orion, and in this book he explains what the Nebula is, how it shines, its role in giving birth to stars, and the insights it affords into how common (or rare) planet formation might be. An account of astronomy's extended engagement with one remarkable celestial object, this book also tells the story of astronomy over the last four centuries. To help readers appreciate the Nebula and its secrets, O'Dell unfolds his tale chronologically, as astrophysical knowledge developed, and our knowledge of the Nebula and the night sky improved. Because he served as chief scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, O'Dell conveys a sense of continuity with his professional ancestors as he describes the construction of the world's most powerful observatory. The result is a rare insider's view of this observatory--and, from that unique perspective, an intimate observer's understanding of one of the sky's most instructive and magnificent objects. 001479400 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479400 546__ $$aIn English. 001479400 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) 001479400 650_7 $$aSCIENCE / Astronomy.$$2bisacsh 001479400 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479400 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001479400 852__ $$bebk 001479400 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275966$$zOnline Access 001479400 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479400$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479400 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_CL_MTPY 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_MTPY 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_ESTMALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479400 912__ $$aEBA_STMALL 001479400 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479400 912__ $$aPDA12STME 001479400 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479400 912__ $$aPDA18STMEE 001479400 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479400 980__ $$aBIB 001479400 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479400 982__ $$aEbook 001479400 983__ $$aOnline