Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy 
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Panel Reports

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Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very latest developments in the observational science of co …