Research Catalog

Title

Gems of Hubble / Text by Jacqueline Mitton and Stephen P. Maran.

Author

Mitton, Jacqueline.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Maran, Stephen P.

Description

iv, 123 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

• Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
• Astronomy > Observations
• Stars > Observations

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• The Hubble Space Telescope. The HST Released in Space. Replacing HST's Solar Arrays. Removing HST's Old Camera. Star Images Before the HST's First Servicing Mission. Star Images After the HST's First Servicing Mission -- The Solar System. Springtime on Mars. The Clouds of Venus. Jupiter. Io, Jupiter's Volcanic Moon. Saturn. Storm on Saturn. Dynamic Neptune. Pluto and Charon. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 a Year Before Impact. The Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Impact Scars on Jupiter, July 1994. Asteroid Vesta -- Star Birth and Star Clusters. Newborn Stars Emerge in the Eagle Nebula. The Orion Nebula. Jets from Young Stars. The Disk Around Beta Pictoris. The Heart of the Globular Star Cluster 47 Tucanae. Two Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Radcliffe 136: An Extraordinary Star Cluster. Star Cluster R136 in its Setting. The Spectra of Two Stars in the Cluster R136. The Fate of the Massive Star R136a5 -- Stellar Explosions and Star Death.
• Nova Cygni 1992 in May 1993. Nova Cygni 1992 in January 1994. Eta Carinae: Supernova in the Making. AG Carinae: A Luminous Blue Variable Star. The 'Cat's Eye' Planetary Nebula. Planetary Nebula N66 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Supernova 1987A in August 1990. Supernova 1987A in Ultraviolet Light, 1994. Supernova 1987A's Outer Rings. Filaments in the Crab Nebula. Details of Filaments in the Crab Nebula. The Pulsar and the Wisps in the Crab Nebula. Understanding Features near the Crab Nebula Pulsar. The Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant -- Galaxies and Black Holes. The Center of a Giant Elliptical Galaxy, NGC 1275. The Cartwheel Galaxy. Colliding Galaxies, NGC 7252. Markarian 315, a Seyfert Galaxy. The Quasar PKS 2349. The Center of the Giant Elliptical Galaxy M87. The Jet of M87 in Ultraviolet Light. The Gas Disk at the Heart of M87. Evidence for a Black Hole in M87. A Black Hole in the Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4261 -- Gravitational Lenses and Cosmology. The Einstein Cross.
• Quasar QSO 1208+101. Gravitational Lensing by the Galaxy Cluster AC114. Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218 as a Cosmic 'Zoom Lens'. The Spiral Galaxy M100 in the Virgo Cluster. A Cepheid Variable Star in the Galaxy M100. Galaxies of Long Ago. Galaxies: Looking Back Through Time. The Faintest Galaxies Ever Seen.

ISBN

0521571006 (pbk.)

LCCN

96015179

OCLC

ocm34543715

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries