Our Amazing Universe -- through the lens of the historic Hubble Space Telescope: “All About This & That” Picture Book Series for Children (Volume 2)

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by Adrian D. Robbe

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Book Description: Our Amazing Universe, Volume 2 of the “All About This & That” Picture Book Series for Children by Adrian Robbe, is filled with a multitude of spectacular pictures taken through the lens of the historic Hubble Space Telescope. Although the book is designed primarily for boys and girls ages 9 to 12 years old, younger children as well as teens and adults will find the pictures of the universe and accompanying facts concerning the history of the Hubble Space Telescope to be extremely interesting. Learning Benefits for Children: This unique, educational, beautifully illustrated picture book provides young children with an unforgettable learning adventure into the amazing wonders of the solar system, star system, galaxies, and cosmos that surrounds us. It even has a game quiz for kids to match the names with the pictures they learned about after previewing the book. The increased awareness young children receive in this easy-to-read, fun-filled picture book about our amazing universe will help them gain a greater appreciation about the marvelous world we live in. Come and experience the journey now! Book Outline: The pictures presented in this book are about the following topics. 1. Concept of a Space-Based Telescope 2. The Journey Begins 3. Hubble Space Telescope 4. Hubble's Challenges 5. Travail Turns into Triumph 6. A Highly Successful Science Program 7. Hubble's Spectacular Pictures 8. Mystic Mountain in Carina Nebula 9. Hodge 301 Star Cluster 10. Monkey Head Nebula 11. Horsehead Nebula 12. M16 (Eagle Nebula) 13. NGC 2207 and IC 2163 14. Carina Nebula NGC 3372 15. Galaxy NGC 4214 16. Orion Nebula NGC 1976 17. Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 18. Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603 19. Quintuplet Star Cluster 20. Galaxy NGC 4414 21. Red Supergiant Star 22. Galaxy Pair Arp 273 23. M80 Star Cluster 24. Westerlund 2 Star Cluster 25. Mars... the Red Planet 26. Bok Globules in NGC 281 27. Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 28. Bug Nebula NGC 6302 29. Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 30. Stellar Spire in Eagle Nebula 31. Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 32. Omega Centauri 33. Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy NGC 1309 34. Sombrero Galaxy M104 35. Jet in Carina 36. Whirlpool Galaxy M51 37. Stephan's Quintet 38. Magellanic Cloud NGC 346 Disclaimer: This collective work is a compilation based on information and photographic images made available to the general public by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In addition, this collective work is based on material created, authored, and/or prepared by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) for NASA under Contract NAS5-26555, which may also be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA’s contract. No claim of copyright is being made to any aspect of those individual public domain images or works. However, the complete compilation and collection of images with the accompanying information in this book as a whole is considered protectable under the provision of ‘collective works copyright’ even though individual images and sources of information are not. Copyright protection of this collective compilation of data extends only to the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the materials and data, not to the data itself or the preexisting works themselves that are in the public domain. This collective work has changed the public domain material by doing the following: Used research, creativity, and a unique selection process in the choices and organization of public domain material by identifying: (1) the best story, (2) greatest photos, (3) most appropriate information, and (4) specific order of presentation to construct a specially designed compilation of information that was subsequently integrated into a single book format. Note: Our Amazing Universe -- “All About This & That” Picture Book Series for Children (Volume 2) is neither authorized nor endorsed (explicitly or implicitly) by NASA or STScI.

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