Facing Infinity

Från GPS navigation to understanding climate change, these enigmatic objects shape our daily existence in ways you’d never imagine. They helped create the atoms in your body, mixed the chemical ingredients for life throughout the universe, and now help us measure our planet’s changing surface with millimetre precision. In Facing Infinity, astrophysicist Jonas Enander takes us on an extraordinary journey from eighteenth-century Britain to cutting-edge observatories around the