Special astronomy feature
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Subjects: Astronomy
Other titles: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Notes: Caption title.

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 96, nos. 8-10 (1999).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Setting our sights on the stars / Marshall Cohen & Guy Riddihough; title: Supernovae, an accelerating universe and the cosmological constant / Robert P. Kirshner; title: Real or virtual large-scale structure? / August E. Evrard; title: Observing the epoch of galaxy formation / Charles C. Steidel; title: Scaling the universe: gravitational lenses and the Hubble constant / Steven T. Myers; title: Active galactic nuclei / Andrew c. Fabian; title: Afterglows from the largest explosions in the universe / Dieter Hartmann; title: Very large radio surveys / John J. Condon; title: Magnetars / Chryssa Kouveliotou; title: In search of planets and life around other stars / Jonathan I. Luninc; title: Helioseismology: probing the interior of a star / Pierre Demarque & D. B. Guenther.