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• Uses For A Telescope Camera

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• Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

  The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics. He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler’s fascinating life brings us face to face with the central characters and discoveries of modern physics. He was the first American [...]

• The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

  For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red [...]