Space Telescopes

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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.
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.
Explores the fascinating story of how we have deployed space-based observatories to greatly extend our knowledge of the Sun, the family of planets in the solar system, and the cosmos far beyond Shows how different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum provide different information about the universe – and why specialized space observatories are needed Discusses the future of space telescope technologies and the status of space telescopes that are now being built or on the drawing board Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Neil English

Themen in »Space Telescopes«

Electromagnetic Spectrum Discoveries Hubble Telescope James Webb Telescope Microwave Telescopes NASA Space Telescope History Orbital Telescopes Solar Space Telescopes Space-based Telescope Missions Telescope Engineering Using Space Telescopes for Cosmology

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“English, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, takes the reader through an exploration of the discovery of the various spectrums, compositely the electromagnetic spectrum, which is used to study the cosmos through telescopes. … this book is filled with fun information about the science and technology utilized to study the past and prepare for the future. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (R. I. Saltz, Choice, Vol. 57 (11), July, 2017)

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