Space
Subtitle: from Earth to the edge of the universe
By: Carole Stott [and others]
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: DK
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780756667382
Subjects: Exploration of outer space; Exploration
Description: Displays images from NASA's archives of the universe, and offers insights from engineers and scientists on the history of space exploration.
Notes: "Featuring new images from NASA"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Launchpad Earth. Looking out ; Observing the skies ; On the launchpad ; Journey into space ; Into orbit ; Orbiting Earth ; Early space stations ; The International Space Station ; Spacewalking ; An astronaut's view of Earth ; Exploring Earth from space ; Surrounding Earth; title: Neighboring worlds. The Solar System ; The inner planets ; Earth ; The Moon ; The Moon in our skies ; Mapping the Moon ; To the Moon and back ; Landing on the Moon ; The Moon's unseen face ; Venus ; Beneath Venus's clouds ; Mercury ; Messenger at Mercury ; The Sun ; Close to the Sun ; Mars ; Mars from above ; Roving over Mars ; The moons of Mars; title: Beyond the belt. The outer planets ; Asteroids ; Missions to asteroids ; Jupiter ; The great red spot ; Jupiter's moons ; Saturn ; Saturn's atmosphere ; Saturn's rings ; Cassini at Saturn ; Saturn's moons ; Uranus ; Uranus's rings and moons ; Neptune ; Neptune's moons ; The outer region ; Comets ; Missions to comets ; Sample collection ; Looking back; title: A galaxy of stars. The Milky Way ; Toward the stars ; Pinning down the stars ; Nearby stars ; Stellar characteristics ; The fuel source of stars ; Starbirth ; The infrared universe ; Star systems ; Main-sequence stars ; Red giants ; Supergiants and hypergiants ; Investigating stars ; The giant telescopes ; Planetary nebulae ; The death of massive stars ; Planets beyond the Solar System ; Extraterrestrial life ; Stellar recycling ; The heart of the Milky Way; title: A universe of galaxies. Galaxy islands ; Galaxies and the Hubble Space Telescope ; Colliding galaxies ; Active galaxies ; The visible edge; title: The outer limits. What is cosmology? ; The Big Bang ; Background radiation ; Dark cosmology ; Galaxy formation ; Bird's-eye view ; How might the universe end? ; The future of deep-space exploration; title: Reference section. The Solar System ; The Milky Way and other galaxies ; The night sky ; Exploration.