Fradin, Dennis B.

Space telescope / by Dennis B. Fradin. - Chicago : Childrens Press, c1987. - 45 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. - A New true book .

Includes index.

Describes some existing and future telescopes and what they can tell us about outer space, with particular emphasis on the "Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope," as big as a bus, able to spot a lit candle a quarter of a million miles away, and which will begin orbiting Earth in the late eighties, gathering information previously unavailable to us.

ISBN: 0516012398

LCCN: 86032686 /AC/r913

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Hubble Space Telescope--Juvenile literature.
Hubble Space Telescope.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Telescopes.
Astronomy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Outer space--Exploration.

LC Class. No.: QB500.268 / .F73 1987

Dewey Class. No.: 522/.29