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02668aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 F7008CC2D4D211E7967FB26A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171129010014 008 151121t20172017sz a b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016958306 020 $a 3319278126 020 $a 9783319278124 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d IQU $d OCLCF $d BDX $d CLE $d VP@ $d ZKS $d SILO 050 4 $a QB500.267 $b .E54 2017 050 4 $a QB136 $b .E54 2017 100 1 $a English, Neil, $e author. 245 10 $a Space telescopes : $b capturing the rays of the electromagnetic spectrum / $c Neil English. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Springer, $c [2017] 300 $a xii, 312 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Astronomers' Universe, $x 1614-659X 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Space telescopes. 650 0 $a Astronomy $v Observations. 650 7 $a Space telescopes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739345 830 0 $a Astronomers' universe, $x 1614-659X 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20171129010303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F7008CC2D4D211E7967FB26A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search