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- Title
Onward to the First Stars.
- Authors
Wanjek, Christopher
- Abstract
Focuses on the efforts of astronomers to capture a view of the first stars to form in the Universe. Release of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the deepest image of the Universe yet, with the use of the Hubble telescope; Reaction of scientists to the plan of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration to abandon the final servicing mission of the Hubble telescope in 2006; Capture of the image of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the Big Bang, by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
- Subjects
ASTRONOMERS; STARS; HUBBLE deep field; TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMICAL instruments; COSMIC background radiation
- Publication
Mercury, 2004, Vol 33, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
0047-6773
- Publication type
Article