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| Authors: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Robert A. Fosbury
Creator: M. Kornmesser
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 117796
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 124
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0387285997
Dewey Decimal Number: 522.2919
EAN: 9780387285993
ASIN: 0387285997
Publication Date: May 25, 2006
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Product Description
Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery forms a key element of the European Space Agency's 15th anniversary celebration activities for the 1990 launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As an observatory in space, Hubble is one of the most successful scientific projects of all time, both in terms of scientific output and its immediate public appeal. Hubble continues to have an enormous impact by exploiting a unique scientific niche where no other instruments can compete. It consistently delivers super-sharp images and clean, uncontaminated spectra over the entire near-infrared and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has opened up new scientific territory and resulted in many paradigm-breaking discoveries. To mark the 15th anniversary on 24 April 2005, the European Space Agency presented a series of unique activities in collaboration with partners all over Europe. This included an exclusive, full-length DVD film (one of the most widely distributed documentary films ever); please see the link to info about the film below: ttp://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/anniversary/
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Hubble review June 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The pictures are stunning, as one would expect. The naritive is pretty good but a bit basic. Not only is it a good coffee table book it is a nice reference book to have on the shelf.
 Beautiful imagery from the world's premier astronomical instrument May 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can't say if fifteen years seems like a long or short time. In one sense, it doesn't seem like that long ago that Hubble went up. In another, it seems as if Hubble has been a fixture in American life, as if it's always been there. It's hard to remember a time when fantastic Hubble imagery didn't come down every few weeks or so.
And of course that's what Hubble is known and, someday, will be remembered for. The astronomers know it as a fantastically useful tool, but everyone else knows it for the stunning imagery. And that's about the way this book handles it. Coffee-table-sized, it contains all the breathtaking photos you could ask for, with text explaining the science behind the photos. But you're going to remember the book - and want it - for the photos, not the text. But that's reason enough.
Fantastic voyage March 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of most beautifull pictura that I ver seen. If you can travell to the unverse this is the guide.
Latest Hubble book January 8, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought Postcards from Mars and this Hubble book right before Christmas. Both were pretty fascinating to read and were well written. I gave this book 4 stars because I thought the pictures should have been larger to emphasize the grandeur. More pages and more text would justify the price.
Fun Picture Book January 4, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
While undertaking a graduate-level course recently to understand big science project development using the Hubble Space Telescope as a classic example, I ran across this book. The images from HST are as meaningful to me as the Apollo 8 Earthrise. In fact, the younger generations will probably give me awe to the HST images than those stunning first pictures of Earth from Apollo 8 and Apollo 17 published so frequently around the globe. The profound images from the HST are many. This book captures much of the soul-searching visualizations that the HST science team has provided us. It is not a full-blown text of the technical aspects of the HST, but it is a high-qaulity picture book of results of BIG science.
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