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Cosmic Odyssey: How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe

By Linda Schweizer, Dava Sobel (Foreword by)
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By Linda Schweizer, Dava Sobel (Foreword by)
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From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe.

Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of...

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