ART OF THE COSMOS

By the author of Hubble Legacy, the book is sub-titled 'Visions from The Frontier of Deep-Space Exploration'. Not only have we now mapped our own planet's continents, oceans and interior, but we have also begun to chart deep space, beyond Earth's orbit to the Moon and beyond. Hundreds of space missions since the 1960s have captured stunning photographs of the cosmos, many involving high-tech robotic emissaries. Many can be classified as art, and this book highlights 195 outstanding examples, selected by one of the foremost experts on space photography. Loosely organised by distance from the Sun, this spacy volume begins with a view of the Helix Nebula, also known as the Eye of God, taken by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) taken just outside Tucson, Arizona. Messier 106 spiral galaxy with its pink colours, a light blue dusty sunset on Mars photographed by NASA's Curiosity Rover 2015, a vibrant false-colour photo of Garish Mars, and photo montages of some of the mesmerising glass 'exoplanets' made by a glass blower, but mostly actual photographs such as sunspots which look like sunflowers, total eclipses, annular eclipses, the colours of the Moon, a Mars selfie, comet NEOWISE, Jupiter and Io in transit, titan shadow, rings of ice, Saturn's rings in a time lapse, Pluto crescent, shock wave, running man and lagoon nebulas and finally Hubble eXtreme Deep Field photo, the deepest image of the Universe ever made created from a combination of photos taken in 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2012. A beautiful book, 224pp, large size 22.86 x 27.3cm, stunning colour. Small remainder mark.
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