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• The Hundred Greatest Stars

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• Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters (Astronomy)

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• A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering In A New Era of Discovery

  LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study of the universe was still fractured into domains: measuring the universe’s expansion rate, the evolution of galaxies in the early [...]