The universe at midnight - Ken Croswell

Technology is now providing us with the means to look further out at the universe from our corner of it than we had ever dreamed possible. THE UNIVERSE AT MIDNIGHT tells the story of twentieth-century cosmology, but ventures beyond the theoretical tradition to take an unprecedented step. With the new information gathered by the astronomers of today, Ken Croswell takes readers on a journey through the cosmos as never seen before.
In this jargon-free guide to the awesome, Croswell doesn't simply state the answers to questions about the origin of the universe and its demise based on complicated mathematical theory. Instead he presents the dramatic story of how particular astronomers made the observations that in the last few years have answered many of cosmology's more perplexing questions. Discoveries such as; the 'Great Attractor', a mass of galaxies 250 million light years away that is actually tugging at our galaxy and thousands of others, and supernovae billions of light years distant that indicate that the expansion of our universe is accelerating. Discoveries such as these could never have been predicted by Einstein or any mere mathematical theory. THE UNIVERSE AT MIDNIGHT presents a clear view of how today's magnificent observatories and orbiting telescopes are the future of cosmology - and the key to unlocking the universe's greatest mysteries.