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Discribes the steps taken to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, and uses text and illustrations to describe the information gained so far, including the discovery of the second known supermassive black hole, and the first direct observation of a "core collapse" in a globular cluster.
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On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's...
3) Hubble's legacy: reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it
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The development and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resulted in many rich legacies, most particularly in science and technology - but in culture as well. This book, which includes contributions from historians of science, key scientists and administrators, and one of the principal astronauts who led many of the servicing missions, is meant to capture the history of this iconic instrument.
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Hubble's spectacular colour pictures of remote stars and galaxies are published alongside a concise narrative which sets the images in perspective and explains in clear and accessible terms how they are changing astronomers' concepts of the cosmos. Illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs.--Amazon.com.
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