A wondrous discovery

The story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Award-winning science writer Richard Panek stands us shoulder to shoulder with senior scientists as they conceive the mission, meet decades-long challenges to bring it to fruition, and, now, use its unprecedented technology to yield new discoveries about the origins of our solar system, to search for life on planets around other suns, and to trace the growth of hundreds of billions of galaxies all the way back to the birth of the first stars.

The Webb telescope has captured the world’s imagination, and Pillars of Creation shows how and why.

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“In this stellar account, science writer Panek…offers a wondrous overview of Webb’s major breakthroughs… Brimming with the excitement of scientific discovery, this soars.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review

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