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Coloring the Universe
An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space
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eBook - ePub
Coloring the Universe
An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space
About this book
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere, from advertising to television shows to memes. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? And how do these images get from the stars to our screens?
Coloring the Universe uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. It talks about how otherwise un-seeable rays, such as radio waves, infrared light, X-rays, and gamma rays, are turned into recognizable colors. And it is filled with fantastic images taken in far-away pockets of the universe. Informative and beautiful, Coloring the Universe will give space fans of all levels an insider's look at how scientists bring deep space into brilliant focus.
Coloring the Universe uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. It talks about how otherwise un-seeable rays, such as radio waves, infrared light, X-rays, and gamma rays, are turned into recognizable colors. And it is filled with fantastic images taken in far-away pockets of the universe. Informative and beautiful, Coloring the Universe will give space fans of all levels an insider's look at how scientists bring deep space into brilliant focus.
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Yes, you can access Coloring the Universe by Travis Rector,Kimberly Arcand,Megan Watzke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Photography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Human versus Telescope: Comparing Telescopic Vision with Human Vision
- 2. This Is Not a Selfie: How Telescopes and Their Cameras Work
- 3. Coloring the Universe: Broadband Images, and How We Use Color
- 4. Color Is Knowledge: What Scientists Learn from Color with Broadband Filters
- 5. A Brief History of Astronomical Images: The History of How (and Why) Images Are Made
- 6. The Marvel of Hydrogen: The Most Important Element and How We See It
- 7. Seeing Red: How We See Color, and How We Use It
- 8. Narrowband Imaging: Addition by Subtraction
- 9. A Night in the Life: Observing with the World’s Largest Telescopes
- 10. Outside the Rainbow: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Different Kinds of Light
- 11. Photoshopping the Universe: What Do Astronomers Do? What Do Astronomers Not Do?
- 12. The Aesthetics of Astrophysics: Principles of Composition Applied to the Universe
- Epilogue: Seeing the Eye (and Hand) of God: Pareidolia, or Seeing Faces/Objects in Astronomical Imagery
- Notes
- Resources
- Index