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...