Under August's full moon comes a love letter to every kid who has ever struggled to bracket Earth's biggest satellite in a dime-store telescope's eyepiece. Professional astronomers chart the night skies, risk their lives for science and occasionally flee from curious bears. In 'The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers,' University of […]

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