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Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

Name: Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Brand: Little Brown and Company
SKU: 9780316570695
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Contributors:

Richard Panek

Publisher:

Little Brown and Company

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Science

Book Subcategory:

Space Science

Book Topic:

Astronomy, Cosmology, Space Exploration

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Release Date:

2024-10-22

ISBN 13:

9780316570695

Weight:

0.8 lbs

Size:

8.30 x 5.70 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

256

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The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes--and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.

Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Award-winning science writer Richard Panek stands us shoulder to shoulder with senior scientists as they conceive the mission, meet decades-long challenges to bring it to fruition, and, now, use its unprecedented technology to yield new discoveries about the origins of our solar system, to search for life on planets around other suns, and to trace the growth of hundreds of billions of galaxies all the way back to the birth of the first stars. The Webb telescope has captured the world's imagination, and Pillars of Creation shows how and why--including through sixteen pages of awe-inspiring, full-color photos.

At once a testament to human ingenuity and a celebration of mankind's biggest leap yet into the cosmos, Panek's eye-opening book reveals our universe as we've never seen it before--through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope, a marvel that is itself a pillar of creation.

About the Author
Richard Panek is the author of numerous books including The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (in Science Writing) and the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a New York Times bestseller. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, Esquire, and Outside. He lives in New York City.

Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

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Webb's Cosmos: Images and Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb's Cosmos: Images and Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope

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