The final star keeps an eye on. After being able to make the short list for the Royal Society of Sciences Award in the United Kingdom during one of its previous sessions, a book written by Emily Levisk was added to the award library series.
According to Emily Levisk in her book, The Last of the Stars, being an astronomer entails going to some of the most difficult-to-reach regions of the earth, facing challenges from unfriendly vegetation, chilly temperatures, and steep terrain.
Not to mention the pressures of the equipment, which has a million dollar price tag. Since Galileo pointed his telescope at the sky for the first time, it has been a life full of peculiar delight and folly that may be coming to an end. Astronomy was once a source of human invention and inspiration, but soon data analysis will be entrusted to the staring at the sky robots.
The Last Stargazers by Emily Levisk explores the secret life of a working astronomer.
It salutes the age of innovation and inquiry and implores us to pause before denying our sense of awe for the cosmos.
Emily Levisk, a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, won the Annie Jamb Cannon Award presented by the American Astronomical Society, and she was chosen as a researcher in physics for Alfred B. Sloan, a author of two academic actions in astronomical physics and written for Physics Today, lives Emily in Seattle..
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