In 2005 the Sloan Digital Sky Survey burst onto the scene--an
amazingly detailed new map of the universe created by a small group
of visionary scientists, led by the beloved and multi-talented
astronomer James Gunn--just awarded the National Medal of Science.
Suddenly cosmologists were flooded with so many powerful new
discoveries that, as one said, it was like drinking out of a fire
hose. At last they could trace the universe's whole history and
peer into vast swaths of never before charted deep space. The Sloan
survey was put on the web for free, and it has launched a brave new
era of eAstronomy in which anyone who wants to is free to probe
into the beautiful and far-reaching depths of the Sloan map and
discover a new galaxy or name a new super-nova.
In The Grand and Bold Thing critically acclaimed science writer
Ann Finkbeiner tells the inside story of how Gunn and his band of
comrades pulled off this remarkable achievement and of the
astonishing array of new cosmological findings that the Sloan
Survey has made possible. This is a book that cosmology buffs and
every armchair astronomer will relish.
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