Table of Contents

Introduction A. Stern; The frontier universe: at the edge of night A. Stern; Part I. Revealing A Universe: Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map: probing the universe's large scale structure John Huchra; Looking back in time: searching for the highest redshift galaxies Esther Hu; COBE probes the cosmic microwave background John Mather; Computational adventures in large scale structure Nick Gnedin; Part II. Denizens of the Deep: The discovery of massive black holes Doug Richstone; Gamma ray bursters revealed Bohdan Paczynski; Galaxy clusters, cathedrals, and the fate of the universe Megan Donahue; Courier new, courier: dark matter and the discovery of galactic halos Jerry Ostriker; Galaxy hunting: discovering low surface brightness galaxies Gregory Botham.

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Reviews

'Encompassing subjects as diverse as the frothy distribution of galaxies, dark matter and those ever-popular black holes, the well-illustrated text is kept very readable. An easier book to pick up than put down.' Steve Ringwood, Astronomy Now

'I can recommend it as a source of material for anyone who is interested in how modern astronomy is carried out and, of course, it makes valuable reading for anyone interested in galactic astronomy and cosmology.' Steven J. Hynes, The Webb Society Deep Sky Observer