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Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe
This e-book is part of a series called Hubble Focus. Each book presents some of Hubble’s more recent and important observations within a particular topic. The subjects span from our nearby solar system out to the limit of Hubble’s view.
This book, Hubble The Dark Universe, highlights some of Hubble’s recent discoveries about dark matter and dark energy—two mysterious, invisible components of the universe. Hubble’s contributions are often in partnership with other observatories, and build on decades of discoveries that came before Hubble’s launch. Its findings are helping us understand how our universe came to be the way it is today.
This book, Hubble The Dark Universe, highlights some of Hubble’s recent discoveries about dark matter and dark energy—two mysterious, invisible components of the universe. Hubble’s contributions are often in partnership with other observatories, and build on decades of discoveries that came before Hubble’s launch. Its findings are helping us understand how our universe came to be the way it is today.
69 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 11, 2024
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February 20, 2025
Another great entry in the "Hubble Focus" series. This book is full of jaw dropping images, illustrations, and explanations that show what's being discovered on the frontiers of science right now.
Did you know some galaxies are transparent? We have no idea how they formed. They're so sparse and don't seem to have any dark matter.
Did you know we used star clusters orbiting around the milky way to estimate its total mass? 1.5 trillion times that of the sun. I think the book described our galaxy as "beefy," which is so funny. Most of that mass is invisible to us.
There's so many fun facts here. Like did you know we used the behavior of a mold to estimate the evolution of galaxies architected on dark matter? Crazy stuff.
My only complaint is the brief nature of the book. Many chapters contain a "learn more" URL at their conclusion, linking to a more detailed NASA article. Why not just put that article in the book? You have the rights, right? The small subset of people reading these ebooks are already interested in this subject, giving they sought out the ebook intentionally. You don't need to hook me and then lead me elsewhere- make this book the compilation! Give me the "learn more" here! The book is so short already, it couldn't have been hurt by more content.
Unless I'm just misreading the purpose of this ebook. If it's supposed to be a glorified glossary/abstract for these other articles, it serves that purpose quite well.
This is the most recent Hubble ebook. I garnered this based on it referencing current James Webb Space Telescope discoveries, rather saying "when Webb launches, we'll learn even more" as some of the other hubble books did. I also learned via this book of another forthcoming telescope - the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Cool!
I learned a lot about what we do know and what we don't yet understand. Good stuff, keep it up science. And keep keeping me in the loop with fun ebooks like these :)
Did you know some galaxies are transparent? We have no idea how they formed. They're so sparse and don't seem to have any dark matter.
Did you know we used star clusters orbiting around the milky way to estimate its total mass? 1.5 trillion times that of the sun. I think the book described our galaxy as "beefy," which is so funny. Most of that mass is invisible to us.
There's so many fun facts here. Like did you know we used the behavior of a mold to estimate the evolution of galaxies architected on dark matter? Crazy stuff.
My only complaint is the brief nature of the book. Many chapters contain a "learn more" URL at their conclusion, linking to a more detailed NASA article. Why not just put that article in the book? You have the rights, right? The small subset of people reading these ebooks are already interested in this subject, giving they sought out the ebook intentionally. You don't need to hook me and then lead me elsewhere- make this book the compilation! Give me the "learn more" here! The book is so short already, it couldn't have been hurt by more content.
Unless I'm just misreading the purpose of this ebook. If it's supposed to be a glorified glossary/abstract for these other articles, it serves that purpose quite well.
This is the most recent Hubble ebook. I garnered this based on it referencing current James Webb Space Telescope discoveries, rather saying "when Webb launches, we'll learn even more" as some of the other hubble books did. I also learned via this book of another forthcoming telescope - the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Cool!
I learned a lot about what we do know and what we don't yet understand. Good stuff, keep it up science. And keep keeping me in the loop with fun ebooks like these :)
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