Never before would I have imagined that a scientific book about the sun could grab my attention, but Bob Berman’s entertaining explanations had me eager to return to this book time and again. I wish that I would have had a science teacher as gifted as he at capturing my imagination and curiosity....
Edwin Hubble is credited with discovering the expansion of the universe in 1929, but there’s never a mention of the woman who lurked behind the scenes. Henrietta Leavitt was a brilliant astronomer in the early 1900s, at a time when women were so discriminated against that the best she could do wa...