In the spirit of National Geographic’s top-selling Orbit, this large-format, full-color volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of the 2008 final shuttle mission to the telescope. Written by two of the world’s foremost authorities on space history, Hubble: Imaging Space and Time illuminates the solar system’s workings, the expansion of the universe, the birth and death of stars,...

Henry Norris Russell lived in two universes: that of his Presbyterian forebears and that of his science. Sharp-witted and animated by nervous energy, he became one of the most powerful voices in twentieth-century American astronomy, wielding that influence in calculated ways to redefine an entire science. He, more than any American of his generation, worked to turn an observation-centered discipline into a theory-driven pursuit centered on physics.\nToday, professional and amateur astronomers...

Hardcover, glossy illustrated boards, issued w/o dust jacket. Edited by David H. DeVorkin, includes chapters by various authors on: The Early Society; Canada and the American Astronomical Society; A Century of Astronomy in Mexico: Collaboration with American Astronomers; Recollections of the Society by Frank K. Edmondson, Vera C. Rubin, Arlo U. Landholt, Laurence Frederick; The Modern Society; Publications of the Society; Divisions of the Society; Commentary by Recent AAS Presidents. Keywords:...