Richard Panek

Gebundenes Buch

Pillars of Creation

How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

Beschreibung

A breathtaking tour of the cosmos through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing how the mission originated, how it's been executed, and how its spectacular images are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

Autor

Richard Panek is the author of numerous books including The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (in Science Writing) and the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a New York Times bestseller. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post , Scientific American, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, Esquire, and Outside. He lives in New York City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 150mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780316570695
• ISBN-10: 0316570699
• Artikelnr.: 70675281