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Space telescopes�are among humankind�s greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.�This book describes the instruments themselves�and what they were designed to discover about the Solar System and distant stars.�Exactly how�these telescopes were�built and launched and the data they provided is explored.� Only certain kinds of radiation can penetrate�our planet’s�atmosphere, which limits what we can observe. But with space telescopes all this changed. We now have the means to “see” beyond Earth using ultraviolet, microwave,�and infrared rays, X-rays and gamma rays.� In this book we meet the pioneers and the telescopes that were built around their ideas. �This book looks at space telescopes not simply chronologically but also�in order of the electromagnetic spectrum, making it possible to�understand better why they were made.Typham this is the title: Space Telescopes Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum