Hubble Revisited : New Images from the Discovery Machine /
Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space telescope continues to dazzle. In recent months it has discovered the most distant known galaxy and the most massive known star, and has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics:...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. General Overview. Telescopes around 2000; How Hubble was born; The second servicing mission; Working with Hubble today
- 2. Cosmology. The Hubble deep field; Quasars and the early universe; The search for cosmic numbers; Gamma-ray bursters
- 3. Stars. Stellar nurseries; Red gants and supergiants; White dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets; Late stellar evolution; Supernova 1987A
- 4. The Solar System. The new invasion of Mars; The rings of Saturn; The winds of Jupiter; Between the planets
- 5. A View into the Future. The next servicing missions; Hubble and beyond; Astronomical quests of the 21st century
- Appendix: references, internet resources.