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Books for Hubble and Webb Soar through the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, exploring some of its most significant discoveries – from dark energy to colliding galaxies. Descend to Earth, where Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, readies for the future of astronomy. Image galleries, video, and interactives bring home the telescopes' science and engineering in this pair of free books available through the iBooks® app on the iPad. Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries Free Downloads: Behind the Hubble Space Telescope's stunning images of the cosmos lies a record of scientific breakthroughs. Webb Space Telescope: Science Guide Hubble's successor, the Webb Space Telescope, will reveal a cosmos hidden from us, showing the first stars flickering to life in the distant universe and the dust-obscured surprises within our own galaxy.
"Zoom Tool" Secret Worlds Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Once the tutorial has completely downloaded, a set of the arrows will appear that allow the user to increase or decrease the view magnitude in Manual mode. Notice how each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it. Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters) Plant Cell = 12.76 x 10-6 = 0.00001276 meters wide (12.76 millionths of a meter) Contributing Authors David A.