Hubble Revisited: New Images from the Discovery Machine

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Telescopes in Orbit and New Telescopes on Mountaintops....Pages 15-22
The Long Road to Hubble’s Launch....Pages 23-25
In Orbit....Pages 26-29
The First Servicing Mission....Pages 30-32
The Second Servicing Mission....Pages 33-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Basic Questions of Cosmology....Pages 43-45
A View into the Depths of Space and Time: The Hubble Deep Field....Pages 46-55
The Search for Cosmic Numbers....Pages 56-64
Searching for the Building Blocks of Galaxies....Pages 65-67
Colliding Galaxies....Pages 68-75
Quasars: Beacons at the Beginning of Time....Pages 76-79
Active Galaxies: Nearby Mini-Quasars....Pages 80-81
Gravitational Lenses: Hubble’s Telephoto Lens....Pages 82-87
Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 88-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Stellar Nurseries....Pages 97-111
Giant Stars....Pages 112-117
Globular Clusters, White Dwarfs, and Blue Stragglers....Pages 118-120
Still Going Strong: Supernova 1987A....Pages 121-125
Neutron Stars....Pages 126-127
A Festival of Colors and Shapes....Pages 128-144
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Old Couples....Pages 145-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Planets around Other Stars....Pages 151-154
At the Edge of the Solar System: Pluto and Trans-Neptunian Objects....Pages 155-156
Neptune and Uranus....Pages 157-160
Saturn....Pages 161-165
Jupiter’s Aurorae....Pages 166-168
Jupiter’s Moons....Pages 169-171
Asteroids....Pages 172-174
Comets....Pages 175-176
Mars....Pages 177-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Hubble’s Second Decade....Pages 185-187
The Next Two Shuttle Visits....Pages 188-189
Hubble’s Legacy: The Data Archive....Pages 190-191
Hubble’s Successors....Pages 192-197
Europe as Partner....Pages 198-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-216