Hubble : a new window to the universe /
Daniel Fischer, Hilmar Duerbeck ; translated by Helmut Jenkner and Douglas Duncan ; foreword by Robert Williams.
- New York : Copernicus, c1996.
- 175 p. : ill. (some col ; 25 x 29 cm.
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index.
Describes the steps taken to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, and uses text and illustrations to describe the information gained so far, including the discovery of the second known supermassive black hole, and the first direct observation of a "core collapse" in a globular cluster.
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