MAPPING THE HEAVENS

This book provides a tour of the greatest hits of cosmological discoveriesthe ideas that reshaped our universe over the past cent ury. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerati ng pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the f orefront of the researchan astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audi...[Read more]