A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Penguin Studio Books) [Hardcover]

Jay Barbree (Author), Martin Caidin (Author), John H. Glenn (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0670860182 | ISBN-13: 978-0670860180 | Publication Date: November 1, 1995 | Edition: First edition.

With a resolution more than ten times sharper than any telescope on Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has seen more than 72 sextillion miles into the universe into events that took place more than 12 billion years ago. This spectacular collection of more than 200 color photos taken through Hubble presents a stupendous view of the universe.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Barbree, coauthor of Moonshot (LJ 4/15/94) and a TV space journalist, and science fiction novelist Caidin survey the universe as seen by modern astronomers. Their prose is lush, and the color photographs are beautiful. After opening with an account of the initial failure of the Hubble optical system and its repair by a skilled and daring team of astronauts, the authors drift away from the Hubble story for whole chapters at a time; the text and the photos are derived from many sources, not just the Hubble Telescope. Compared with Carolyn Peterson's Hubble Vision (LJ 11/15/95), this new book is far more readable for the general public, but it gives far less scientific and technical detail and tells disappointingly less about the Hubble Telescope's work. Recommended chiefly for public and secondary school libraries.?Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

A glossy collection of 200 astounding pictures showcases Hubble's revelations since astronauts repaired the telescope in 1993. No longer are stars featureless points of light, galaxies fuzzy whirls, or nebulae murky clouds of color. Detail transforms the objects into convulsive, agitated tableaux of cosmic birth and death. In the immediate neighborhood, the telescope enables a steadier observation of the planets than can fly-by spacecraft (spectacularly so in the case of last year's Jupiter-comet collision), and the authors open with a gallery of the solar system. Their text strives to excite as much as the pictures do, and does that well enough for readers who have never heard how hot Venus is or must have the concept of the light-year explained. From such rudiments, the eye rushes to the images of startling discoveries: protoplanetary disks around new stars or the still-expanding fireball of a 10,000-year-old supernova. Expect certain interest in these awesome photos, and perhaps back it with The Hubble Wars by Eric Chaisson , the technical story of the telescope. Gilbert Taylor

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Studio; First edition. edition (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670860182
• ISBN-13: 978-0670860180
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,416,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars the worst book ever about the Hubble Space Telescope, January 11, 1999

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This review is from: A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Penguin Studio Books) (Hardcover)

this is the worst book I ever read about the Hubble Space Telescope. Images are ok (thanks to the Hubble team) but the text is terrible and full of factual errors and misinterpretations (an artwork is presented as an actual picture from Hubble, the speed of light is said to be actually infinite , etc...)

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Poetry, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Penguin Studio Books) (Hardcover)

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

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, January 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Penguin Studio Books) (Hardcover)

great text and pictures, everything is perfect, and in the book the speed of light is typed as 186,000 m.p.h. or something, it is listed many times.