When Galaxies Were BornOne of today's leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades long search for the first galaxies and the origin of starlight. Astronomers are like time travellers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. When Galaxies Were Born is Richard Ellis's firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world's largest telescopes to