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The bestselling author of The Hot Zone offers another thrilling scientific narrative. First Light focuses on the work of astronomers at Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California, as they peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, in an attempt to solve the riddle of creation.

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First Light more books like this

by Richard Preston

The author writes in this book about the lives and work of astronomers. He spent a year visiting Palomar Mountain in southern California where he learned how astronomers explore the infinite deep. Since the Hale Telescope at Palomar opened its shutter to "first light" in 1949, the observatory has been a mecca for generations of astronomers and ...

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