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Textbook in PDF format Eyes in the Sky - Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb by Andrew May is a must-read book for anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and history of space exploration. Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from comets and planets to galaxy clusters and stars. Since then, almost 100 space telescopes have been launched from Earth and are orbiting our planet, with 26 still active and relaying information back to us. As a result of these space-based instruments, such as NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, we know much more about the universe than we did half a century ago. But why is Hubble, orbiting just 540 kilometers above the Earth, so much more effective than a ground-based telescope? How can a glorified camera tell us not only what distant objects look like, but their detailed chemical composition and three-dimensional structure as well? In Eyes in the Sky, science writer Andrew May takes us on a journey into space to answer these questions and more. Looking at the development of revolutionary instruments, such as Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, May explores how such technology has helped us understand the evolution of the Universe. Telescopes and space: the two are virtually inseparable. Most of what we know about the universe beyond our own planet is down to telescopes. To say there are craters on the Moon, or that the planet Jupiter – no more than a bright star to the naked eye – is a giant world with moons of its own, would have sounded unbelievable before these facts were revealed by the first telescopes in the 17th century. Yet today, they have been so thoroughly absorbed into our culture that everyone takes them for granted. The advent of space travel in the 20th century gave us a new perspective on outer space – or at least the nearby part of it represented by our own Solar System. Humans themselves have only ventured as far as the Moon, but robotic probes have travelled much further. Several have visited Jupiter and its moons, including the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit there, while New Horizons is flying through the Kuiper Belt far beyond the orbit of Neptune. Everyone has marvelled at the high-definition images sent back by these missions, such as Juno’s panoramic views of Jupiter’s swirling, multicoloured clouds and the intriguing glimpses of the 4.5-billionyear- old ice world Arrokoth captured by New Horizons. What’s rarely mentioned is the fact that the probes obtained these images using – you guessed it – telescopes. Contents Space and Telescopes Hubble Probing the Big Bang Exoplanet Hunters Mapping the Galaxy Webb High-energy Astronomy The Future Further Reading

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