The Extravagant Universe by Robert Kirschner, Princeton University Press, £19.95, ISBN 0691058628
BOB KIRSCHNER is one of the liveliest and most amusing lecturers in the world of astronomy so it was with great anticipation that I turned to his first popular book on astronomy. I was not disappointed. It’s wonderful. The Extravagant Universe is an entertaining and witty account of one of the biggest scientific stories of the past 10 years: how exploding supernovae show that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.
Kirschner has worked on supernovae for the past 30 years and is one of the major figures…
