Hubble Cosmos, The: 25 Years of New Vistas in Space

There is so much about this book to recommend. There are marvelous photographs that one will want to look at again and again. Regions of star formation, gaseous clouds where stars are formed. There are photographs of spiral galaxies and other types of galaxies. The Hubble telescope can see 90 percent of the way outward and backward in time to the big bang itself. Photographs of exploding supernova fragments, The book describes Cepheid variable stars used to calibrated distances. Other star types are described and shown - red and blue supergiant stars and regions where astronomers are fairly certain there are white dwarf stars and in another region a neutron star can be found ( page 184 , remnant of supernova explosion in Large Magellanic cloud) . All the photographs are catalogued with what they are, where they are located and the distance from Earth. One can learn a lot from reading this book. There is also the history of the telescope, of how it has been serviced and photographs of the space telescope in orbit and being serviced by various astronauts including astronaut John Grunsfeld. The story of how things went wrong and the tenacity to get things right adds a more human touch to the story. The book describes how thanks to the Hubble space telescope our view of the universe we live in has been enriched enormously.

It was a surprise father's day gift and my stepdad loved it so much. He said the photos are spectacular.

Wonderful pictures.

Highly recommended, very educational. :)

This book is awesome. Seeing such vivid and wondrous photos the universe, and reading explanations of how the photos were composed is beyond incredible.

I gave this to my nephew for Christmas. He's at an age where he's too cool to think anything is cool, so it's hard to tell what he thought of it. I thought it was great; lots of pictures, well written. I only wish it had more (or better) wide-view shots of the deep field. I was hoping for something that would really give you an idea of how small our galaxy is out there with everything else (we had a Hubble deep field poster in one of my college astronomy classes that did just that, and it was awesome).

WOW what can I say? This book is incredible. The pictures and write ups, I love Astrophysics and am studying it on my own. The Hubble Telescope has a major to play in Space exploration. And a awsum team worked their butt off to make it and put it in Space.

Much, much grander than I anticipated! And I'd purchased pretty much the cheapest one available, too. Thanks so much. My grandson and I will enjoy it for years.