Hubble Revisited (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Telescopes on the Ground and in Space.- Telescopes in Orbit and NewTelescopes on Mountaintops.- The Long Road to Hubble's Launch.- In Orbit.- The First Servicing Mission.- The Second Servicing Mission.- 2. To the Edge of the Universe.- The Basic Questions of Cosmology.- A View into the Depths of Spaceand Time: The Hubble Deep Field.- The Search for Cosmic Numbers.- Searching for the Building Blocks of Galaxies.- Colliding Galaxies.- Quasars: Beacons at the Beginning of Time.- Active Galaxies: Nearby Mini-Quasars.- Gravitational Lenses: Hubble's Telephoto Lens.- Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts.- 3. Stars.- Stellar Nurseries.- Giant Stars.- Globular Clusters, White Dwarfs, and Blue Stragglers.- Still Going Strong: Supernova 1987A.- Neutron Stars.- A Festival of Colors and Shapes.- Old Couples.- 4. Planets.- Planets around Other Stars.- At the Edge of the Solar System: Pluto and Trans-Neptunian Objects.- Neptune and Uranus.- Saturn.- Jupiter's Aurorae.- Jupiter's Moons.- Asteroids.- Comets.- Mars.- 5. Hubble's Future and ItsSuccessors.- Hubble's Second Decade.- The Next Two Shuttle Visits.- Hubble's Legacy: The Data Archive.- Hubble's Successors.- Europe as Partner.- 6. Appendix.- Want to See More? (World WideWeb Addresses).- Further Reading.