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Space Telescopes - Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R954
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Space Telescopes - Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Neil English

Space Telescopes - Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)

Neil English

Series: Astronomers' Universe

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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.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Astronomers' Universe
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2017
Authors: Neil English
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-27812-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Observatories, equipment & methods
Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > General
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LSN: 3-319-27812-6
Barcode: 9783319278124

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