The Unfolding Universe by Patrick Moore
On 24 April 1957, the BBC launched its ‘Sky at Night’ television series. The original intention was to present it every four weeks for a few months, and see whether or not it generated real interest. At that time none of us could foresee the remarkable events which lay close ahead. Less _ than six months later, on 4 October, the Russians ushered in the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and astronomy became very much a topic of everyday conversation. Since then, men have been to the Moon, rocket probes have flown by all the planets out as far as ringed Saturn, and there have been major space stations; astronomical equipment has been carried above the atmosphere, and our whole outlook has been dramatically changed. But there have been developments, too, in ‘groundbased’ astronomy. New telescopes have been built, and the latest electronic devices have more than doubled our range of investigation. We can now provide detailed information about objects so far away that their ight now reaching us began its journey long before the Earth itself existed.
Michael Joseph Ltd 1982
ISBN: 0 7181 2152 X
Condition: Good, wear on dustcover
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On 24 April 1957, the BBC launched its ‘Sky at Night’ television series. The original intention was to present it every four weeks for a few months, and see whether or not it generated real interest. At that time none of us could foresee the remarkable events which lay close ahead. Less _ than six months later, on 4 October, the Russians ushered in the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and astronomy became very much a topic of everyday conversation. Since then, men have been to the Moon, rocket probes have flown by all the planets out as far as ringed Saturn, and there have been major space stations; astronomical equipment has been carried above the atmosphere, and our whole outlook has been dramatically changed. But there have been developments, too, in ‘groundbased’ astronomy. New telescopes have been built, and the latest electronic devices have more than doubled our range of investigation. We can now provide detailed information about objects so far away that their ight now reaching us began its journey long before the Earth itself existed.
Michael Joseph Ltd 1982
ISBN: 0 7181 2152 X
Condition: Good, wear on dustcover
FB
On 24 April 1957, the BBC launched its ‘Sky at Night’ television series. The original intention was to present it every four weeks for a few months, and see whether or not it generated real interest. At that time none of us could foresee the remarkable events which lay close ahead. Less _ than six months later, on 4 October, the Russians ushered in the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and astronomy became very much a topic of everyday conversation. Since then, men have been to the Moon, rocket probes have flown by all the planets out as far as ringed Saturn, and there have been major space stations; astronomical equipment has been carried above the atmosphere, and our whole outlook has been dramatically changed. But there have been developments, too, in ‘groundbased’ astronomy. New telescopes have been built, and the latest electronic devices have more than doubled our range of investigation. We can now provide detailed information about objects so far away that their ight now reaching us began its journey long before the Earth itself existed.
Michael Joseph Ltd 1982
ISBN: 0 7181 2152 X
Condition: Good, wear on dustcover
FB