Hubble Revisited
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Author(s): D. Fischer and H. Duerbeck
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 0 367 98551 4
Format: hardback
216pp
Price: £24.50
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This is a sequel to Hubble: A New Window to the Universe, published in 1996. This book continues the basic theme and incorporates the best Hubble pictures from recent years and reveals the wealth of new discoveries that these images, together with other recent developments in space and ground-based astronomy, have led to. The first servicing mission in 1993 furnished 'corrective 'glasses' for the telescope, and the second, in 1997, provided it with completely new 'eyes'. The improved telescope explores the depths of the universe to the limits of space and time, and, helped by the Hubble Depth Field, probes through the dust that obscures the birth of stars. It also shows new aspects of our solar system, such as comets Hykutake and Halle-Bopp. In recent months it has discovered the most distant known galaxy and the most massive known star. Recently-made impressive ground-based telescopes and current astronomical satellites are also discussed as well as the astronomy satellites that apply new technologies which are soon to come into service.