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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Emily Levesque

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#3701 of 3,809 books · #563 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2021).

The Last Stargazers won the Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist and was an Amazon Best Book of 2020. To be an astronomer is to journey to some of the most inaccessible parts of the globe, braving mountain passes, sub-zero temperatures, and hostile flora and fauna. Not to mention the stress of handling equipment worth millions. It is a life of unique delights and absurdities … and one that may be drawing to a close. Since Galileo first pointed his telescope at the heavens, astronomy has stood as a fount of human creativity and discovery, but soon it will be the robots gazing at the sky while we are left to sift through the data. In The Last Stargazers, Emily Levesque reveals the hidden world of the professional astronomer. She celebrates an era of ingenuity and curiosity, and asks us to think twice before we cast aside our sense of wonder at the universe.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781786078247
Topics
AstronomyScientific explorationTelescopes and observatories

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