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Picturing the Cosmos : Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime /

"The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. ... But their brilliant hues and precise details are not simply products of the telescope's unprecedented orbital location and technologically adva...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kessler, Elizabeth A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Astronomy's romantic landscapes
  • The astronomical sublime and the American West
  • Ambivalent astronomers and the embrace of Hubble images
  • Translating data into pretty pictures
  • From unknown frontiers to familiar places
  • A very distant and peaceful star.