Space Telescopes Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum /

• Main Author: English, Neil (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.