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Breathtaking full-color photography complement an intriguing exploration of outer space, in a visual look at modern astronomy that features pictures from the Mars Pathfinder and Voyager probes, telescope images from around the world, and images from the Hubble telescope.
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Not all astronomers are totally thrilled with the Hubble Space Telescope. "That's not data, it's pictures," they complain. But what pictures: never has the universe seemed so gorgeous, powerful, diverse: in a word, magnificent. Only part of the pictures in Ken Croswell's Magnificent Universe are from the Hubble, but all cleave to the same high standard. Whether of Mars, a supernova, or galaxies in collision, they are beautiful. The paper in the book is glossy black, which is ideal for bringing out colors and details in the photographs, each of which covers an entire very large page. The white-on-black text is less special, meant more for browsing than for learning. It's rather a pity, because Croswell's other books (The Alchemy of the Heavens and Planet Quest) are written in a style both witty and informative.
The only astronomy coffee-table book that can begin to compare to this one for beauty is Full Moon. The black-and-white photos in the latter have a stark loveliness with something of the chill of space; the pictures in Magnificent Universe are colorful and even exciting, giving the reader sheer, sensual pleasure along with their sense of wonder. --Mary Ellen Curtin
About the Author
Ken Croswell is the author of the internationally successful The Alchemy of the Heovens, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Planet Quest, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a New Scientist bestseller. He earned his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University and lives in Berkeley, California.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0684845946
- ISBN 13 9780684845944
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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