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Pillars of creation how the James Webb Telescope unlocked the secrets of the cosmos

"The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes--and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing."

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Main Author: Panek, Richard (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Outer space > Exploration.
Space telescopes.
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Summary:"The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes--and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing."
Physical Description:xv, 238 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
ISBN:0316570699
9780316570695
Author Notes:Richard Panek is the author of numerous books including The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality , which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (in Science Writing) and the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum , a New York Times bestseller. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in publications including the New York Times , the Washington Post , Scientific American , Discover , Smithsonian , Natural History , Esquire , and Outside . He lives in New York City.

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