Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

by Richard Panek

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes--and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.

Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316570699
• ISBN13: 9780316570695
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"