Starlight Detectives
Alan HirshfeldNBC News Top Science and Tech Books of the Year" selection
Scientific American/FSG Favorite Science Books of the Year" selection
Nature.com Top Reads of the Year" selection
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year" selection
Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Read"
A masterful balance of science, history and rich narrative." —Discover magazine
Hirshfeld tells this climactic discovery of the expanding universe with great verve and sweep, as befits a story whose scope, characters and import leave most fiction far behind." —Wall Street Journal
Starlight Detectives is just the sort of richly veined book I love to read—full of scientific history and discoveries, peopled by real heroes and rogues, and told with absolute authority. Alan Hirshfeld's wide, deep knowledge of astronomy arises not only from the most...