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A review by justjonsbooks
Hubble Focus: Galaxies through Space and Time by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
4.0
If you ever want to be enraptured by the amazing possibilities that are out there in the universe, this e-book(let) is a great place to start!
It’s packed with lots of brilliant images and interesting information on the Hubble space telescope, stars, distant galaxies and more. I would have finished it much quicker than I did but with every page I found something else that I wanted to Google and find out more about. Also since it’s digital there were some incredible videos that zoomed through the universe, and it just blows your mind!
I spent a good 5 minutes staring at an image of thousands of stars, thinking of all the awesome planets that could be orbiting around them... to realise that the image was simply a tiny spec of our own Milky Way. Then a chapter later you’re looking at hundreds of Galaxies billions of light years away. I don’t think our minds will ever fully be able to comprehend the crazy scale of this amazing universe.
It makes you feel small and it makes humanity feel precious. There’s the quote by Arthur C. Clarke, ‘Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.’ For me books like this give me hope that our fantasies of other life in the universe are not fiction. It’s impossible for me to look at all those dots and not believe there is life out there somewhere.
Anywayyy I went off on one there didn’t I! The book.. review of book, yes right.. it was much good, very wow indeed! Kay bye!
It’s packed with lots of brilliant images and interesting information on the Hubble space telescope, stars, distant galaxies and more. I would have finished it much quicker than I did but with every page I found something else that I wanted to Google and find out more about. Also since it’s digital there were some incredible videos that zoomed through the universe, and it just blows your mind!
I spent a good 5 minutes staring at an image of thousands of stars, thinking of all the awesome planets that could be orbiting around them... to realise that the image was simply a tiny spec of our own Milky Way. Then a chapter later you’re looking at hundreds of Galaxies billions of light years away. I don’t think our minds will ever fully be able to comprehend the crazy scale of this amazing universe.
It makes you feel small and it makes humanity feel precious. There’s the quote by Arthur C. Clarke, ‘Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.’ For me books like this give me hope that our fantasies of other life in the universe are not fiction. It’s impossible for me to look at all those dots and not believe there is life out there somewhere.
Anywayyy I went off on one there didn’t I! The book.. review of book, yes right.. it was much good, very wow indeed! Kay bye!