Uncover the quirky brilliance of astronomers at Palomar, where a colossal telescope unveils cosmic mysteries and the raw human passion fueling science.
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Uncover the quirky brilliance of astronomers at Palomar, where a colossal telescope unveils cosmic mysteries and the raw human passion fueling science.
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"First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time. "Science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize," Preston writes in his foreword to this revised and updated edition of his first book, and he skillfully weaves together s...
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