| Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle | 
| Author: Michael Benson
Publisher: Abrams
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 57,142
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 328
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 11.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0810949482
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.35
EAN: 9780810949485
ASIN: 0810949482
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
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Product Description
In Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle, author and filmmaker Michael Benson assembles an outstanding collection of astronomical images from observatories around the world and in space. We live in a golden age of astronomical observation. Some of the resulting images are well known and have inspired millions of people; others, equally breathtaking, have never been published before. For this book, Benson has culled the very best, and organized them into a thrilling journey through space and time to the universe's great places, ranging from "nearby" nebulae in our own Milky Way galaxy to the light of the Hubble Deep Field that has traveled billions of light-years. Every bit as innovative and beautiful as the author's successful Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes but far grander in conception, Far Out is an inspiring work of art and science on the cutting edge of human perception.
A Guide to the Cosmos, in Words and Images Dazzling and True –New York Times Book Review [With Far Out] Take a good long look into space-time. –Los Angeles Times Far out by Michael Benson proves that putting the photographable universe into a book doesn’t dampen its beauty. – Men’s Journal An exquisite picture book of outer space. –San Diego Union Tribune
“2001: A Space Odyssey and Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle: both are inspirational moving pictures. Far Out punches deep into space, like a series of jump cuts. It is a truly cinematic experience to see these magnificent images in rapid succession. Like the Star-Child in Stanley Kubrick’s vision of a Mankind evolving to a higher level, Far Out inspires me again to imagine a Universe filled with life, and each of those billions of pinpoints being orbited by worlds and beings of breathtaking beauty. Very moving pictures.”
—Douglas Trumbull, Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek, The Motion Picture
“The inventive, imaginative Michael Benson here unfolds the universe in its multiple dimensions.”
—Dava Sobel, author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets
“That the images in Michael Benson’s latest book, Far Out, are completely mind-blowing goes without saying. What’s especially dazzling about this volume, though, is the way Benson’s text takes the shards of those blown minds and completely reconfigures them into such a startlingly new and fresh awareness: a trembling awe all its own.”
—Lawrence Weschler, author of Everything That Rises and Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
“First he gave us the beauty of our solar system’s neighbor worlds in Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, but Michael Benson hasn’t stopped there. In this spectacular new offering he gives us the universe itself, presented in such stunning and vivid detail that I am awed by every page. Open this book, take the journey, and be amazed.”
—Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon and A Passion for Mars
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 Far out! August 24, 2010
Jerry Davison (Seattle, WA USA)
Great book! Wonderful pix and the text goes into the details one will not find in a coffee table book. Scholarly and well done! (signed) MS Physics
Beautiful Astrophotogry July 28, 2010
Darrel Drumm (Bunch, OK United States)
This is a beautiful astrophotography book, arranged by distance of the stellar systems are away from the Earth. The writing is also superb, explaining without writing "down" to the reader.
Space photography May 17, 2010
Siegrune H. Wolborsky
The absolute best space photography captured in a single volume. I highly recommend this book to everyone who has the passion for astronomy and the interest to see our universe and beyond!
 Coffee table book May 10, 2010
Michael Swift (Scarsdale, NY USA)
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
This volume follows the worst tradition of Abrams "coffee table" art books. Much too heavy to hold and read and I found it impossible to relate the pretentious text to the magnificent illustrations. I still remember vividly my first view of the solar system in the work of Chesley Bonestell!!
Magnificent May 5, 2010
William Brazell (Brooklyn, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Far Out is full of stunningly beautiful photographs and great text that not only explains the photos but puts them in wondrous context - what was happening here on Earth when the light we're seeing left, say, the Tarantula Nebula (to name just one massive object you can get lost in). If you're reading this, you're unlikely ever to float around out there to see these things, and we can't see them in any detail from Earth. Benson's lovingly assembled book of great Hubble photos may be the single best way to experience the world beyond our atmosphere (and thus to better understand the world within it).
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