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PILLARS OF CREATION
PILLARS OF CREATION will offer a breathtaking tour of the cosmos through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing how the mission originated, how it's been executed, and how its spectacular images are rewriting our understanding of the universe.
In PILLARS OF CREATION, award-winning science writer Richard Panek tells the story of the James Webb Space Telescope - the $10 billion NASA instrument whose stunning images have captured the world's imagination and are revolutionizing our understanding of the cosmos.
Moving from the near and now to the farthest and earliest, Panek shows how everything we thought we knew about our own solar system, our galaxy, and the birth of the universe itself has been touched and transformed by the Webb's findings. Drawing on access to the project's most senior scientists and featuring a selection of the most astonishing color images taken by Webb, PILLARS OF CREATION presents readers with the big theoretical takeaways that the mission has already generated, and points to future areas of research - and even future missions - that will expand our horizons even further still.
Richard Panek is the author of several books including The 4% Universe, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of the New York Times bestseller The Autistic Brain. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in Scientific American, the New York Times, Discover, Esquire, Outside, and many other publications. He is on the faculty of the MFA Writing Program at Goddard College, and he also teaches creative writing at Barnard College (Columbia University) and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in New York City.
Moving from the near and now to the farthest and earliest, Panek shows how everything we thought we knew about our own solar system, our galaxy, and the birth of the universe itself has been touched and transformed by the Webb's findings. Drawing on access to the project's most senior scientists and featuring a selection of the most astonishing color images taken by Webb, PILLARS OF CREATION presents readers with the big theoretical takeaways that the mission has already generated, and points to future areas of research - and even future missions - that will expand our horizons even further still.
Richard Panek is the author of several books including The 4% Universe, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of the New York Times bestseller The Autistic Brain. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in Scientific American, the New York Times, Discover, Esquire, Outside, and many other publications. He is on the faculty of the MFA Writing Program at Goddard College, and he also teaches creative writing at Barnard College (Columbia University) and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in New York City.
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