Here is a vivid and stimulating introduction to the science of astronomy, and to the great discoveries made possible as men and their instruments peer farther and farther out into the remote reaches of space.

The biggest eye in the world is on a mountain in California-the great 200-inch telescope of the Palomar Observatory; and the largest radio telescope in the world is at Jodell Bank. With these two superb instruments, astronomers are pushing back the seeming boundaries of time and space, probing deep into the very beginnings of the universe itself in an effort to discover its nature and its origin.

From the dust jacket of the edition published by W.H. Allen

*Illustrated with diagrams by John Polgreen