Hubble

Robin Kerrod is an astronomy and space writer with a string of best-selling titles to his credit, including The Sky at Night, The Star Guide, Apollo, The Journeys of Voyager and History of NASA. He has also authored a multimedia Space Encyclopedia on CD.ROM. A Fellow both of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society, he is an avid globe-trotter, travelling to space centres and observatories, and to witness astronomical phenomena such as eclipses and comets. Robin lives near Salisbury, England.

INTRODUCTION: The new look Universe being revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope and other state-of-the-art instruments in space and on the ground, increasingly complex, increasingly mysterious 1. STARS IN THE FIRMAMENT 2: STELLAR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 3.: GREGARIOUS GALAXIES 4. THE EXPANSIVE UNIVERSE 5. SOLAR SYSTEMS 7. PLANETS IN THE SKY BACKGROUND BRIEFING... EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE MILESTONES GLOSSARY Index