About the Cover The image on the cover (NGC 6240) is a well-studied nearby ultra luminous infrared galaxy in the constellation Ophiuchus. This galaxy is the remnant of a merger between two smaller galaxies. The collision between the two galaxies has resulted in a single larger galaxy with two distinct nuclei. Colliding galaxies are pairs of galaxies caught by the tug of their own mutual gravitational attraction. Just like a Man and a Woman some colliding galaxies eventually merge to form a new whole or become one, while other colliding galaxies eventually part. In the process of becoming one...

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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.
The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.
"Voyager 1 "left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, "Voyager 2," will do so in 2015. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of "Cosmos" aired. The mission was planned as a grand tour beyond...

Paris and Lamar Counties were first settled by Americans during the Republic of Texas period, but their history stretches back into dim antiquity--as local Indian mounds testify. Although it was never a cow town, Paris was once home to one of the Old West's most famous cattle barons. It was never as lawless as other Western towns, but Frank James, whose brother was the infamous Jesse, at one time called Paris home. Although Paris has undergone a number of devastating natural and economic tragedies, its citizens have never given up on themselves or their city.