When Galaxies Were Born av Richard S. Ellis

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<p><b>One of today¿s leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades-long search for</b><b> the first galaxies and the origin of starlight</b><br><br>Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. <i>When Galaxies Were Born</i> is Richard Ellis¿s firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world¿s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn, the time when starlight first bathed the cosmos and galaxies emerged from darkness.<br><br>In a remarkable career spanning more than forty years, Ellis has made some of the most spectacular discoveries in modern cosmology. He has traveled the world to conduct observations in locales as beautiful and remote as the Australian outback, the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and the Chilean desert. In this book, he brings to life a golden age of astronomy, describi