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Looking up : an illustrated guide to telescopes / Jacob Kramer & Stephanie Scholz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Flying Eye Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First American editionDescription: 54 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781912497683
  • 1912497689
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Looking up -- Sight -- Lenses -- The first telescope -- Near and far, dim and bright -- Reflecting and collecting -- The Keck Observatory -- Large distances -- Invisible colors -- Vista -- James Webb Space Telescope -- Invisible water light -- Alma -- Radio light -- Giant dishes -- Stretched colors -- A hum in a horn -- The longest light from long ago -- A picture of nothing -- Hubble Space Telescope -- X-ray eyes -- Gamma ray eyes -- Little eyes.
Summary: Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies! All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it. Clear inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 522.2 K89 Available 33111010667422
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 522.2 K89 Available 33111010550263
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies!

All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it.
Clear, inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title.

Subtitle from cover.

Looking up -- Sight -- Lenses -- The first telescope -- Near and far, dim and bright -- Reflecting and collecting -- The Keck Observatory -- Large distances -- Invisible colors -- Vista -- James Webb Space Telescope -- Invisible water light -- Alma -- Radio light -- Giant dishes -- Stretched colors -- A hum in a horn -- The longest light from long ago -- A picture of nothing -- Hubble Space Telescope -- X-ray eyes -- Gamma ray eyes -- Little eyes.

Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies! All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it. Clear inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title.

Ages 7-10.

Grades 2-5.

Includes index.

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