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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.
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an
expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and
temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the
structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe;
from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month)
to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings
and infographics throughout and organized into sections including
Size and Amount (Distance, Area, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature),
Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration, Density, Rotation), and
Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure, Sound, Wind,
Computation), Magnitude shows us the scale of our world in a clear,
visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily
understand.
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