Alice's Cosmic Restaurant

Gravity, Motion, Light

Why Stars Shine

Mapping the Milky Way

The Discovery of Universal Expansion

Looking for the Big Bang

Walls of Galaxies, Fingers of God

The Elusive Age of the Cosmos

An Uncertain Future

The Inflationary Theory

The Mystery of the Missing Mass

In Search of Most of the Universe

World Enough and Time

Hot Dark Matter, Cold Dark Matter, What's the Matter



Index

Illustrations

Author of The Astronomers, the companion book to the popular PBS television series of the same name, Donald Goldsmith is an astrophysicist and the president of Interstellar Media. He is also the winner of the 1995 American Astronomical Society's Annenberg Foundation Award for Education and the Klumpke-Roberts Prize for his contributions to the public understanding of astronomy. His books also include Nemesis: The Death Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction, The Evolving Universe, and The Hunt for Life on Mars.