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Space Pictures
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The Solar System |
Skywatching |
Space Pictures |
General Interest
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Orbit : Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earth, by Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson,
Roger Ressmeyer (Editor), Roger Russmeyer
For the first time ever, readers can
view our Earth just as if actually looking
through
the shuttle window. Orbit offers unprecedented
access to spectacular NASA space
photography. It contains natural color photos shot
by astronaut Jay Apt and fellow
astronauts with hand-held cameras inside the
low-flying shuttle. Includes more than
170 color photos and maps. [amazon.com]
Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth is
almost entirely text-free. Page
after page of glorious pictures taken from the
Space Shuttle are arranged by
continent, so you can take a world tour from the
comfort and safety of your own
home. Some of the most striking shots are in a
separate section on the aurora,
revealing how the curtains of glowing particles
rise at right angles to the surface high
into the ionosphere. [amazon.com article, by Mary
Ellen Curtin.]
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A Journey Through Time : Exploring the Universe With the Hubble
Space Telescope, by Jay Barbree, Martin Caidin, John Glenn
With a resolution more
than ten times sharper than any telescope on
Earth, the
Hubble Space Telescope has seen more than 72
sextillion miles into the universe into
events that took place more than 12 billion years
ago. This spectacular collection of
more than 200 color photos taken through Hubble
presents a stupendous view of the
universe. [synopsis, amazon.com]
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Hubble's Universe : A Portrait of Our Cosmos, by Simon Goodwin
A gallery of the most
significant photographs of space as taken by the
Hubble
telescope explains what Hubble's achievements can
tell us about the universe, its
origins, and its future. [synopsis, amazon.com]
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Hubble Vision : Astronomy With the Hubble Space Telescope, by Carolyn Collins Petersen, John C. Brandt
The refurbished Hubble Space
Telescope has revealed spectacular and intriguing
details of every object upon which it has
gazed. This lavishly illustrated volume
comprehensively reviews the most exciting of these
finds, presenting a superb
collection of the most dramatic images taken by
HST--from the Solar System and
nearby stars to the most distant quasars and
inklings of the early universe. 100 color
plates. 50 halftone illustrations. 18
diagrams. [synopsis, amazon.com]
Hubble Vision by Carolyn Collins Petersen and
John Brandt has
fewer pictures per word, but the words are
considerably more
interesting and technical. They describe the
design, refurbishing, and
operation of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well
as providing
many images of planets, stars, galaxies, quasars,
and more. This
volume may possibly be too informative to be a
classic gift book,
but is still a very good choice for the more
nerdy coffee table. [from an amazon.com article
by Mary Ellen Curtin]
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