Cosmos

EVERYONE HAS

- — BILL CONDIE

heard of the Hubble Space Telescope, a byword for the hauntingly beautiful pictures of the farthest corners of the universe it has been capturing since it launched into low Earth orbit in 1990. This handsome volume is a wonderful record of some of the amazing sights the NASA project has given us.

The key to Hubble’s success in taking extremely high-resolution images is that it operates outside the distortion of Earth’s atmosphere and with much lower background light than ground-based telescopes.

Bestsellin­g astronomy writer Terence Dickinson provides surefooted and informativ­e explanatio­ns of the images as he presents this portfolio drawn from an archive of more than 500,000 existing Hubble images. He also keeps up a fascinatin­g flow of little-known facts along the way.

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NON- FICTION Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoverie­s and Latest Images by TERENCE DICKINSON Firefly Books (2014) RRP $ 35.00 Hardcover

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