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• Celestial Encounters

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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 [...]

• Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

  On February 12, 1997, two Russian cosmonauts joined an American astronaut on board the only permanent manned outpost in space, the dilapidated, eleven-year-old Mir space station. It was to be a routine mission, the fourth of seven trips to Mir that NASA astronauts would take as “dress rehearsals” for the two countries’ partnership in a [...]

• The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology

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