The Hubble Space Telescope: Understanding and Representing Numbers in the Billions
- ISBN-10
- 1404251294
- ISBN-13
- 9781404251298
- Series
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-01
- Publisher
- The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
- Author
- Greg Roza
Description
Explains representing numbers in the billions and describes the Hubble Space Telescope that was put into orbit in 1990 and the space images it relays to us.
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