Product Details
Hardcover
740 pages
Harry N. Abrams
Published 2003
From Book News, Inc.
Gleaned from six years of entries posted on the website "Astronomy Picture of the Day," these 365 selections include images from NASA's archives as well as recent Hubble images, photographs from observatories around the world, submissions from astrophotographers, and even an artist's rendition or two. The subjects of these stunning pictures range from a simple photograph of Earth (day one) to a Pathfinder panorama of Mars, a far-infrared image of the Milky Way from the COBE satellite, a sungrazing comet imaged by SOHO, X-ray stars and winds in the Rosette Nebula, a composite galileo image of Io, and the inside of Japan's Superkamiokande neutrino detector.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
About the Author
Robert J. Nemiroff is Associate Professor of Physics at the Michigan Technological University. He lives in Houghton, MI. Jerry T. Bonnell is an astrophysicist with the Universities Space Research Association who has been working at NASA since 1988. He lives in Greenbelt, MD.
Book Description
Photographs of outer space--produced by earthbound and space telescopes and planet-roving satellites--have captivated a vast audience. And nowhere has this audience found more enthralling views than on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a website so popular that it draws well over one million hits every week. The Universe: 365 Days presents in unprecedented clarity 365 spectacular images culled from the thousands that have been featured on the site, which has been hailed as one of the best science sites by both Scientific American and Popular Science magazines.
Following the enormously successful format of Abrams' Earth From Above: 365 Days, The Universe: 365 Days has been crafted by the two astrophysicists who in 1995, in collaboration with NASA, created and continue to maintain the APOD website. Accompanying each stunning image is a short explanatory text that greatly expands the reader's appreciation of the wonders of the cosmos. |
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