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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