Supplements

Optical Astronomy

Nature, 395, 6701 (supplement) (1 October 1998)

In this supplement

The 40th anniversary of the Kitt Peak National Observatory seems an appropriate time to reflect on how far we have come, and where the future of astronomy might lie.


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Editorial

Optical Astronomy: a view to the future

Leslie Sage



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Reviews

The formation and evolution of galaxies

R. Ellis


Large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies as a probe of cosmological models

M. S. Strauss


Supermassive black holes and the evolution of galaxies

D. Richstone et al.


The age of the globular clusters

J. Mould


The revolution in telescope aperture

M. Mountain, F. Gillett


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Kitt Peak Perspective

Forty years of discovery

R. F. Green, D. De Young, S. Wolff


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