ASTRONOMY: 365 Days
By Goldberg, Cait
ASTRONOMY: 365 Days
JERRY T. BONNELL AND ROBERT J. NEMIROFF
On any given day, astronomy aficionados can get a glimpse of the cosmos by visiting physicists Bonnell and Nemiroff’s NASA-sponsored “Astronomy Picture of the Day” Web site. Now more than 10 years old, the popular site features images collected from major Earth- and space-based observatories and professional and amateur astronomers around the world. This hefty volume, a follow-up to the authors’ The Universe: 365 Days (2003, Abrams), is a selection of 365 of the daily images that were posted on the Web site between 2002 and 2006. Among the full-color pictures are those from the Spirit and Opportunity Mars lenders, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. These photographs include the pinpoints of stellar light making up the M13 globular cluster, Venus transiting across the face of the sun, the Horsehead nebula, the Crab pulsar, and the tentacles of the Tarantula nebula. Earthly images include pictures of the northern lights, a rare lenticular cloud over Hawaii, and sun rise over Mount Kilimanjaro. Each image is accompanied by scientific information. Abrams, 2006, 744 p., color images, hardcover, $29.95.
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