A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Penguin Studio Books)
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Customer Review: Pure Poetry
I can’t even begin to describe the affect this book has had on my way of thinking in regards to the universe we live in and my own mortality. Before I read this book(a billion times)I was always interested in the universe and what was out there. A co-worker heard of my interest and bought me this book as a Christmas present. I thought, “wow. pretty cool”. But in no way was I ready for the abundance if information placed at my disposal by this book. I’m just in awe when I read it. The author really does seem to have passion about our universe and it showed in the writing. The descriptions and hypotheticals are so vivid. You don’t have to be some genious to understand what this book is telling you but it doesn’t come of as “kiddy” either. To me that is what makes it so wonderful. It gives you the feeling that someone has actually traveled to the ends of the universe and their just telling you what it was like. Even the chapter on Earth is suprisingly very interesting. It gave me a new appreciation(and fear) for this planet. So calm and unassuming in comparison to other planets. But so powerful to all it’s inhabitants. “Before our universe existed, there was no past, present, or future. Space did not exist, nor did vacuum. There was nothing-even dark cannot exist without light”. wow
Customer Review: Breathtaking!
This book was, simply put, breathtaking. I don’t know why someone would wish to sabotage the overall rating by giving this masterpiece one star…but clearly they were not reading the same book I was. To each their own. I found the facts within the book quite accurate myself….having read more than one hundred books of its kind and finding no inconsistencies. The pictures within the book itself were magnificent and well placed throughout the book. The text itself was also very informative and showed that the author was very well versed in the ways of the cosmos…both theoretically and factually. I highly recommend this book to anyone with interest in our cosmos. You won’t be dissapointed. Click To Buy…
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Houston Chronicle - He raves about the rovers on Mars and is deeply supportive of the Hubble Space Telescope. Weinberg is old enough to remember that when the first Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957, it really had nothing to do with science and everything to do with
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Canada Free Press - NASA continue to make strides as they explore past the galaxies outer limit with Voyager and closer to home begin preparations for the James Webb Space Telescope. Now Google has entered the fray by creating the Google Lunar X Prize, putting $30
Anything but Drastic
Toronto Sun - The Green Movement-loving Scottish singer-songwriter’s first album of folk-pop, 2004’s Eye to the Telescope, took years to get mainstream attention, eventually spawning two hits, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree and Suddenly I See, and selling four
Yes, the Milky Way is still up there even if you haven’t seen it
Staunton News Leader - As of now we seldom turn the observatory’s telescope in the direction of Harrisonburg or Staunton, except to look at the moon or the brightest of planets. When I first started stargazing from the site in the late ’80s, the light from those towns
Stargazing Oct. 19
Monterey County Herald - Volunteers and staff members of Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District and Santa Cruz Astronomy Club will be on hand to explain and demonstrate telescope use and what is observed in the night sky
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