Hubble

1 From Babylon to Cape Canaveral.- Larger, Higher, More Expensive... From Simple Tools to the Telescope of the Nineties.- Space Astronomy-Picture Window to the Universe.- The Hubble's Thorny Path into Space.- Why an Optical Telescope in Space?.- From the Idea to the Countdown.- In Orbit.- The Scandal of the Defective Mirror.- Hubble's Difficult Years.- The Servicing Mission.- 2 The New Window to the Universe: The Hubble and Astronomy.- The Great Questions: How Large and How Old Is the Universe?.- Cepheids.- Globular Clusters.- The Hubble and the Big Bang Helium.- Island Worlds in Space and Time: Galaxies and Quasars.- Gravitational Lenses in the Universe.- Are Quasar Theories Out of Date?.- Mysterious Galaxies.- Large and Small Lights: The World of Stars.- The Most Massive Stars.- The Least Massive Stars.- Families and Clans of Stars: Open and Globular Clusters.- Gas and Dust: Of Life and Death of Stars.- The Orion Nebula: Nursery of Stars and Planets?.- Jets and Star Formation.- Planetary Nebulae: A Colorful Finale.- Close-up of Stellar Death: Supernova 1987A.- A Stellar Ruin: The Cirrus Nebula.- A Different Kind of Stellar Explosions: Novae.- Our Galactic Home-The Solar System.- Are We Alone in the Universe?.- Where Are the Limits of Our Solar System?.- Pluto.- Neptune.- Uranus.- Saturn.- Taking Aim at Jupiter.- The Asteroids.- Mars.- 3 Hubble At Work-And Looking Beyond.- Working with Hubble.- Hubble's Next Decade.- What Comes After Hubble?.- 4 Appendix.- Want to See More?.- Further Reading.