Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space
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Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe
In this truly mind-blowing book,cutting-edge graphics are used to illuminate the most extraordinaryplaces and objects that modern science has laid bare."Astronomers Stuart Lowe and Chris North really lift off in this graphic exploration of all things spaceTheir depictions of year-by-year spaceflights and space junk shock through sheer numbers, while their takes on interplanetary missions, moons in the Solar System and particularly the polarization of the Milky Way €” like a cosmic finger-painting in palest mauve €” deliver the facts with aesthetic brio."
"incredible data-illustrations"
Dr Stuart Lowe has previously worked at Jodrell Bank Observatory where he helped build astronomical instruments used on radio telescopes in the UK and Poland. At the University of Manchester, he worked on the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was launched in 2009 to look at the echoes of the Big Bang. He co-founded the UK's longest running, regular, astronomy podcast - The Jodcast. More recently he has built web-interfaces that allow everyone, from professional astronomers to school children, to observe with the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781316450 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781316457 |
| Title | Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space |
| Author | Stuart Lowe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2017-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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