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Light from the Void

Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

By: Kimberly K. Arcand,Grant Tremblay,Megan Watzke,Belinda J. Wilkes,Martin C. Weisskopf

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Light from the Void

Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

By: Kimberly K. Arcand,Grant Tremblay,Megan Watzke,Belinda J. Wilkes,Martin C. Weisskopf

A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever built Take a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades of operation. The book showcases rarely-seen celestial phenomena such as black holes, planetary nebulae, galaxy clusters, gravitational waves, stellar birth and death, and more. Accompanying these images of incredible natural phenomena are captions explaining how they occur. The images start close to home and move outward: beginning with images of the Chandra launch, then moving into the solar system, through the nearby universe, and finally to the most distant galaxies Chandra has observed, the book brings readers on a far-out visual voyage.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588346692

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9781588346698

Your Ticket to the Universe

A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

By: Kimberly K. Arcand,Megan Watzke

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Your Ticket to the Universe

A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

By: Kimberly K. Arcand,Megan Watzke

An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos. Accompanied by dramatic visuals, Your Ticket to the Universe is a hybrid coffee-table book and field guide. Beginning with our home planet, Your Ticket to the Universe embarks on an entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops known in the cosmos. Learn about objects nearby within our Solar System (our backyard in space, so to speak) as well as wonders that are found throughout the Milky Way galaxy and beyond (the most distant and exotic lands to explore). Accompanied by brilliant photographs that bring the reading experience to vivid, immediate life, Your Ticket to the Universe is designed to make space exploration accessible to everyone. Your Ticket to the Universe outlines the essentials anyone needs to know, while piquing the reader's curiosity to learn more.

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239

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588343766

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9781588343765

Coloring the Universe

An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

By: Travis Rector,Kimberly Arcand,Megan Watzke

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Coloring the Universe

An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

By: Travis Rector,Kimberly Arcand,Megan Watzke

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere, from advertising to television shows to memes. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? And how do these images get from the stars to our screens? Coloring the Universe uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. It talks about how otherwise un-seeable rays, such as radio waves, infrared light, X-rays, and gamma rays, are turned into recognizable colors. And it is filled with fantastic images taken in far-away pockets of the universe. Informative and beautiful, Coloring the Universe will give space fans of all levels an insider’s look at how scientists bring deep space into brilliant focus.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602232741

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9781602232747

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Light from the Void

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