Expanding Universe: Photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836549220 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-24 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
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Owen Edwards has written about photography for 30 years for numerous publications including American Photographer, New York Times Magazine, and Smithsonian.Zoltan Levay is Imaging Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute. . He works with astronomers and communicators worldwide to publicize science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
About the Author Owen Edwards has written about photography for 30 years for numerous publications including American Photographer, New York Times Magazine, and Smithsonian.Zoltan Levay is Imaging Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute. . He works with astronomers and communicators worldwide to publicize science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Wow This is exactly the type of hubble book I was looking for, sure you can get most of these pictures for free online but they look amazing in high quality print.This book focuses on the amazing hubble pictures and has minimal writing. The foreward and afterword are written in English, German and. Spend a quiet evening among the stars-courtesy of Taschen. Can't say enough about this amazing book-the vast majority of these stunning photos are presented on high-quality glossy paper(wish all the photos were). Even the paper the text is printed on has a wonderful feel to it (it's actually nice to see 'Printed in Italy' for onceinstead of 'Printed i. George L Smyth said Perhaps the highest quality book I own. This really should be a $100 book - no question. The cover is thicker than is common, so the creasing of the dust cover squares around it. The paper that holds the text has a thick linen feel. The images are varnished, and the surrounding black is covered with a different varnish that resists
The collection is accompanied by an essay from photography critic Owen Edwards and an interview with Zoltan Levay, who explains how the pictures are composed. Time, space, and a telescope: Hubble’s most magnificent images With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy, but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 25th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, TASCHEN celebrates its most breathtaking deep space images both as scientific feats and as photographic masterpieces. Ultra high-resolution and taken with almost no background light, these pictures have answered some of the most compelling