Space telescopes : capturing the rays of the electromagnetic spectrum / Neil English.
English, Neil.
2017
QB90
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Title Space telescopes : capturing the rays of the electromagnetic spectrum / Neil English.
Author English, Neil.
ISBN 9783319278148 (electronic book)
3319278142 (electronic book)
9783319278124
3319278126
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27814-8
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-27814-8 doi
Call Number QB90
Dewey Decimal Classification 522/.2919
500
Summary Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years. This book describes the instruments themselves and what they were designed to discover about the Solar System and distant stars. Exactly how these telescopes were built and launched and the data they provided is explored. Only certain kinds of radiation can penetrate our planet's atmosphere, which limits what we can observe. But with space telescopes all this changed. We now have the means to "see" beyond Earth using ultraviolet, microwave, and infrared rays, X-rays and gamma rays. In this book we meet the pioneers and the telescopes that were built around their ideas. This book looks at space telescopes not simply chronologically but also in order of the electromagnetic spectrum, making it possible to understand better why they were made.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series Astronomers' universe.
Available in Other Form Space telescopes.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Light: Nature's Great Information Superhighway
Chapter 2. The Hubble Space Telescope
Tragedy and Triumph
Chapter 3. Hubble
The People's Telescope
Chapter 4. The Infrared Universe
Chapter 5. The Gamma Ray Universe
Chapter 6. The Universe Through Ultraviolet Eyes
Chapter 7. The X-Ray Universe
Chapter 8. Probing the Microwave Sky
Chapter 9. Empire of the Sun
Chapter 10. Measuring the Heavens
Chapter 11. Looking to the Future: The James Webb Space Telescope
Useful Websites on Space Telescopes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

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