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    Stargazing: Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA
    Stargazing: Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA
    Stargazing: Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA
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    Stargazing: Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA

    By Nirmala Nataraj and Bill Nye

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    A compendium of images of the night sky, the perfect gift for stargazers, space lovers, science geeks, photography lovers, and NASA fans.
     
    This collection of photographs illuminates the darkness of space in a whole new way. Images from the archives of NASA reveal the night sky’s most extraordinary phenomena, from the radiant aurora borealis to awe-inspiring lunar eclipses. Each breathtaking photo is paired with an informative caption about the scientific phenomena it reveals and the technology used to capture it. Featuring a preface by author and Emmy award-nominated TV host Bill Nye, this ebook will rekindle the wonder of looking up at the stars.
     
    “[A] gorgeous photographic tour of space . . . Remarkable.”—Publishers Weekly on The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781452175096
    Stargazing: Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA

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      Stargazing - Nirmala Nataraj

      Text copyright © 2019 by Chronicle Books LLC.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

      ISBN 9781452175096 (epub, mobi)

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, author. | Nye, Bill, writer of preface. | Nataraj, Nirmala, writer of added text.

      Title: Stargazing : photographs of the night sky from the archives of NASA / preface by Bill Nye ; text by Nirmala Nataraj.

      Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018045946 | ISBN 9781452174891 (hardcover)

      Subjects: LCSH: Astronomical photography. | Sky--Pictorial works. | Night photography. | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Photograph collections. | Outer space--Pictorial works.

      Classification: LCC QB121 .U56 2019 | DDC 520.22/2--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045946

      Design by Kristen Hewitt.

      Chronicle books and gifts are available at special quantity discounts to corporations, professional associations, literacy programs, and other organizations. For details and discount information, please contact our premiums department at corporatesales@chroniclebooks.com or at 1-800-759-0190.

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      CONTENTS

      PREFACE BY BILL NYE

      7

      INTRODUCTION BY NIRMALA NATARAJ

      9

      OTHER THINGS YOU MIGHT FIND IN THE NIGHT SKY

      10

      THE FUTURE OF NIGHT SKY-WATCHING

      13

      PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF NASA

      14

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      122

      IMAGE CREDITS

      123

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      128

      PREFACE

      by Bill Nye

      Tonight, look—just look up and out at the night sky. The scale of the cosmos is more than anyone can grasp. But with this book, you can give it a try. Reach out, and hold a finger at arm’s length. Now swing your arm skyward, and gaze up. You’re occluding more stars from your view than you could count in a lifetime. Hence the expression billions and billions. As you look at the stunning pictures in this volume, I hope you get a wonderful sense of just how much there is to see out there. Most of us are city dwellers; we can see only a tiny fraction of what’s up at night. Even on a moonless night, our cities produce so much light that we only perceive a few bright points: Jupiter, Saturn, or Mars, the red planet, which glows just a little bit orange, by the way. But if you can take the time to get out and away from city lights, you’ll get a glimpse of our beginnings. You’ll look in on where we all came from.

      Through millennia of diligent observations, stargazer scientists have discovered that all the chemical elements—all the water, all the air, indeed all of whatever molecules make up you and me—are made of the atomic material of ancient stars. It all gets driven into the blackness of space by explosions, brought on when the extraordinary process of stellar fusion overwhelms the crush of gravity in a star. Along with the glowing stars in the night sky, then, is the dust of other stars, and it’s the dust that comprises everything you know and love. To get a few good looks at all those stars and all that dust up close, turn these pages.

      Because of a drive deep within us to know the cosmos and our place within it, and a drive to keep ahead of others of our kind (who might be members of other tribes, other lands, and other countries), we’ve designed and built extraordinary means to capture images of the night sky. Earth’s citizens invest billions of dollars, euros, rupees, yuan, and yen in the means to study the heavens. Taxpayers around the world have funded and built optical telescopes, radio dishes, and amazing spacecraft, as well as whole cities to support them. Here in the United States, the organization doing this work is the renowned National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It’s so famous that its acronym is enough: NASA evokes respect for technical achievement, remarkable accomplishment, and wonderment for

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