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Stairway to the Stars: The Story of the World's Largest Observatory Barry R. PARKER Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994 edition
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Stairway to the Stars: The Story of the World's Largest Observatory
Barry R. PARKER
"The author combines ""the history of Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian 13,795-foot-high site of nine telescopes, with vignettes of the astronomers who work there.... Stories concerning political, environmental,"
350 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780306447631 |
| Publishers | Springer Science+Business Media |
| Pages | 350 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 25 mm · 566 g |
| Language | English |
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