Origins Our Place in Hubble's Universe Author:John Gribbin, Simon Goodwin In Origins, bestselling science writer John Gribbin and astronomer Simon Goodwin present the definitive illustrated history of time, detailing in clear text and spectacular images how the Universe was born. Dozens of rare photographs of deep space from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and the Cosmic B... more »ackground Explorer Satellite tell the story of how a sea of superhot gas, expanding out of the Big Bang and cooling as it did, gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and people.
Origins: Our Place in Hubble's Universe presents in stunning photographs events that previous generations of astronomers could only picture in their mind's eye - and which non-astronomers could not even imagine. In the 1990's new technology was applied to telescopes both on Earth and in space, and the result is here for all to see - from resonant views of supernovas and the center of the Milky Way to the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Sun, and including an extraordinary image of the afterglow of the Big Bang, almost unimaginably far back and far away, just 300,000 years after time zero.« less