A review by miguelf
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily M. Levesque

4.0

Two recent books by astronomers discuss their field. Of the two, “The Last Stargazers” delivers a abundance of information on the latest in discoveries on the topic, how an astronomer approaches their job day in and day out, and some of the minutiae that someone in their position would experience, such as how to deal with the abundant tarantulas in the Chilean observatories. It’s consistently fun and insightful. “The Smallest Lights in the Universe” has some of this type of info, but unfortunately the bulk of the work is devoted to the author’s personal life experience which may as well have ejected the science altogether as it is often uneven and gets bogged down when it comes to the personal travails and tribulations.