- Astronomers, Astronomy, Biography, Palomar Observatory
"First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time.
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- Author
- Richard Preston
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Random House, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, New American Library
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307817426
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