Innovations In Astronomy

Readers will discover: Henrietta Leavitt's 1912 work that led to the discovery of the universe's true size-- Internet re... (more)

Readers will discover: Henrietta Leavitt's 1912 work that led to the discovery of the universe's true size-- Internet resources, such as Ask an Astronaut and Gong Show-- the launching of the Mars Pathfinder in 1996-- nearly 600 scientific terms and concepts-- the 1995-founded European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory-- the major ground-based observatories and telescopes-- Edwin Hubble's discovery of the existence of galaxies outside our own and how his theory of an expanding universe came to be accepted-- numerous diagrams and helpful illustrations-- important space missions-- index. (less)