Bibliograph

Looking up, an illustrated guide to telescopes, Jacob Kramer & Stephanie Scholz

Type

Label

Looking up, an illustrated guide to telescopes, Jacob Kramer & Stephanie Scholz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 7-10

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 2-5

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Looking up

Oclc number

1259052220

Responsibility statement

Jacob Kramer & Stephanie Scholz

Sub title

an illustrated guide to telescopes

Summary

Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies! All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it. Clear inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title

Table Of Contents

Looking up -- Sight -- Lenses -- The first telescope -- Near and far, dim and bright -- Reflecting and collecting -- The Keck Observatory -- Large distances -- Invisible colors -- Vista -- James Webb Space Telescope -- Invisible water light -- Alma -- Radio light -- Giant dishes -- Stretched colors -- A hum in a horn -- The longest light from long ago -- A picture of nothing -- Hubble Space Telescope -- X-ray eyes -- Gamma ray eyes -- Little eyes

Target audience

juvenile

Classification