Title Looking up : an illustrated guide to telescopes / Jacob Kramer & Stephanie Scholz.

Publication Info.	London ; New York : Flying Eye Books, 2021.
	©2020

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Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	J522.2 KRAMER	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	J522.2 KR	Check Shelf

Edition	First American edition.
Description	54 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm
Note	Subtitle from cover.
	Map on front lining papers.
	Includes index.
Contents	Looking up -- Sight -- Lenses -- The first telescope -- Near and far, dim and bright -- Reflecting and collecting -- The Keck Observatory -- Large distances -- Invisible colors -- Vista -- James Webb Space Telescope -- Invisible water light -- Alma -- Radio light -- Giant dishes -- Stretched colors -- A hum in a horn -- The longest light from long ago -- A picture of nothing -- Hubble Space Telescope -- X-ray eyes -- Gamma ray eyes -- Little eyes.
Summary	Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies. All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it.
Audience	Ages 7-10.
	Grades 2-5.
Subject	Telescopes -- Juvenile literature.
	Space telescopes -- Juvenile literature.
	Astronomy -- Juvenile literature.
	Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Astronomy.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Discoveries.
	Exploration of outer space. (OCoLC)fst01353078
	Space telescopes. (OCoLC)fst01739345
	Telescopes. (OCoLC)fst01146496
	Outer space. (OCoLC)fst01243437
Genre/Form	Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
	Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Informational works.
	Instructional and educational works.
	Illustrated works.
Added Author	Scholz, Stephanie F., 1983- illustrator.
ISBN	9781912497683 (hardcover)
	1912497689 (hardcover)

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