A series of photos taken from space more than 20 years ago revealed thousands of unknown galaxies in a tiny patch of "empty" space. Called the Hubble Deep Field, the amazing image is made up of hundreds of photos combined into one. It was taken over the course of 10 days from the Hubble Space Telescope and has prompted astronomers and other scientists to speculate about universe's size, shape, and age. How long ago did the first galaxies appear? Have they always looked like they do today, or have their shapes evolved over time? And will they, along with the universe itself, go on expanding forever? The Hubble Deep Field has helped to answer some of these questions.
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August 1, 2017 -
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- ISBN: 9780756556884
- File size: 10498 KB
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- ISBN: 9780756556884
- File size: 10498 KB
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- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 7.9
- Lexile® Measure: 1140
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 6-9
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January 1, 2018
Grades 5-8 Zeroing in on individual pictures that fundamentally affected scientists' understanding of the universe, these titles in the Captured Science History series nicely balance explanations of historical context, key players, and the science concepts at work in each historic image. The image revealing distant galaxies in Hubble Deep Field is staggering, though the author's explanations for the photo's implications about the nature and age of the universe gets a bit muddled. Large-format photos and diagrams on nearly every page spread help illustrate concepts, and accessible writing offers plenty of multidisciplinary angles, from discussions of each image's historical moment to the larger implications of the discoveries those images led to. A solid, engagingly written STEM series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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