EAN: 9783319278124

ASTRONOMERS UNIVERSE SPACE TELESCOPES - NEIL ...

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.

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