Stars in Your Hand
A Guide to 3D Printing and the Cosmos
$44.53
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2022
Summary
An illustrated guide to exploring the Universe in three dimensions.
Astronomers have made remarkable discoveries about our Universe, despite their reliance on the flat projection, or 2D view, the sky has offered them. But now, drawing on the vast stores of data available from telescopes and observatories on the ground and in space, astronomers are using 3D technology to go beyond a flattened view of the cosmos. In Stars in Your Hand, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke offer an …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544153 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262544156 |
| Author: | Kimberly Arcand, Megan Watzke |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Kimberly Arcand
Kimberly Arcand is Visualization Scientist and Emerging Technology Lead at the Chandra X-ray Center, the headquarters for a NASA space-based telescope at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Megan Watzke is the press officer for the Chandra X-ray Observatory, a NASA space-based telescope that is the sister mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. She helped create the “public science” model that brings scientific content into everyday spaces, such as public parks, subway stations, and libraries. She and Kim Arcand have co-authored five non-fiction books.
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