Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge (2001) is an illustrated collection edited by astrophysicists Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson, published by The New Press as an American Museum of Natural History book. Written by leading astronomers, its essays survey frontier topics from Jupiter's moon Europa and the Kuiper Belt to galaxies, black holes and dark matter, the Big Bang, the possibility of life on Mars, gamma-ray bursts and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.