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Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and…
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Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
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Milky Way Galaxy
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New York Times Best Books of the Year (2002)
Alex Award (2003)
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Rapport of the Sun, Moon, Earth, and al the constellations,
What are the messages by you from distant stars to us?
-- Walt Whitman
Anywhere is the center of the world.
--Black Elk
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To stargazers everywhere
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At sunset on a late Autumn day the skies have cleared, so I hike the last two hundred paces from the house up the hill to the observatory.
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The last thing I see against the darkness of my closed eyelids is the Whirlpool galaxy, afloat on a blue ocean, indelible.
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Sobel, Dava
Sagan, Carl
Ballard, J. G.
O'Rourke, P. J.
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