Philips Atlas of the Universe

Observatories of the World ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE I t is the Earth’s atmosphere which is the main enemy of the astronomer. Not on ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE are not very good, and the site was selected only because there are no really favourable locations in the ...

Great Telescopes ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE F or many years the Mount Wilson 2.5-metre (100-inch) reflector was not only the world’s ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Telescopes Observatory Aperture Lat. Long. Elev., Completed min m REFLECTORS Keck I W. M. Keck Observator ...

Invisible Astronomy ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he colour of light depends upon its wavelength – that is to say, the distance betwee ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Type of radiation Gamma rays 0.00010.001 X-Rays Ultra- violet Infra-red Visible Radio waves Wavelength Ra ...

Rockets into Space ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he idea of travelling to other worlds is far from new. As long ago as the second cent ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE a few tens of metres at a top speed of below 100 kilome- tres per hour (60 miles per hour), but it was th ...

Satellites and Space Probes ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE I f an artificial satellite is to be put into a closed path round the Earth, i ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE and Mariner 10 made the first rendezvous with the inner planet Mercury. Next came the missions to the out ...

Man in Space ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE M anned spaceflight began on 12 April 1961, when Major Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force w ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Gagarin entered space 54 years later, and only 12 years elapsed between Gagarin’s flight and Neil Armstro ...

Space Stations S pace stations date back a long way – in fiction, but only in modern times have they become fact. One early post ...

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The International Space Station in December 2001. The robot manipulator arm is clearly visible in this p ...

The HST mirror. The mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope was perfectly made – but to the wrong curve! Human error resulted in ...

The repaired HST, 1994. During the repair mission, the faulty solar panels were replaced. This picture was taken just after th ...

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Saturn from Cassini, in a spectacularly detailed mosaic of 126 images obtained over two hours on 6 October 2004. The spacecraf ...

The Sun’s Family ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he Solar System is the only part of the universe which we can explore with spacecraft o ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Distance from max. 69.7 109 152 249 816 1507 3004 ...