Astronomical Enigmas
Subtitle: Life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and Other Milky Way Mysteries
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801880261
Subjects: Cosmology & the universe; Popular astronomy; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Physics; Popular works; Astronomy
First sentence: IT IS NOT NEWS THAT IN MANY BRANCHES OF SCIENCE our knowledge and technology have advanced so rapidly that research done twenty years ago may well have been superseded by new studies carried out with improved instruments and techniques and grounded in more sophisticated theories.