Space Telescopes Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum /

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 pro...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: English, Neil (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Σειρά:Astronomers' Universe,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.