Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos

by Megan Watzke and Kimberly Arcand

Book Overview

An illustrated guide to exploring the Universe in three dimensions.
Astronomers have made remarkable discoveries about our Universe, despite their reliance on the flat projection, or 2D view, the sky has offered them. But now, drawing on the vast stores of data available from telescopes and observatories on the ground and in space, astronomers are using 3D technology to go beyond a flattened view of the cosmos. In Stars in Your Hand, Kimberly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544156
• ISBN13: 9780262544153
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"