From the Book - Regular Print - Second edition.
Who invented the telescope?
What is an optical telescope?
How do optical telescopes make the invisible visible?
Where are the largest optical telescopes on Earth?
What is a radio telescope?
What is an infrared telescope?
Why would an infrared telescope tag along after earth?
What is an ultraviolet telescope?
What are x-ray and gamma ray telescopes?
What is an observatory and where are they located?
What is the largest telescope in orbit?
How does Hubble stay in orbit?
Why is Hubble so important?
What kinds of facts do space probes collect?
For what kinds of mission would a probe be good?
Where did early space probes go?
When did space probes reach Venus, Mercury, and Mars?
How did pathfinder collect facts about Mars?
What did Mars's odyssey discover?
What are spirit and opportunity?
Why were plaques aboard the probes that studied Jupiter?
What did the Voyager and Galileo probes discover?
What probe continues to orbit Saturn?
What has NASA learned from stardust and near?
Fun facts about telescopes and space probes.
From the Book - Regular Print
Who invented the telescope?
What is an optical telescope?
How do optical telescopes "see"?
Where are the largest optical telescopes on Earth?
What is a radio telescope?
What is an infrared telescope?
What is an ultraviolet telescope?
What are X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes?
What is the Hubble space telescope?
How does Hubble stay in orbit?
Why is Hubble so important?
What can space probes do that astronauts can't?
Where did early space probes go?
When did space probes reach Mercury, Venus, and Mars?
Which other probes have studied Mars?
Which rovers have explored Mars?
What did the Phoenix lander discover on Mars?
What have the voyager probes taught us about the solar system?
Which probes have studied Jupiter?
Which probe is studying Saturn?
What have we learned from probes to the sun?
What have we learned from stardust and near?
What messages have we sent into space?