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From a childhood reading of A Wrinkle in Time to discovering a new species of star, award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque has spent her life exploring the universe, and now she wants to share that exploration with the world. Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. In The Last Stargazers (Sourcebooks), Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. From the lonely quiet of midnight stargazing to tall tales of wild bears loose in the observatory, The Last Stargazers is a love letter to astronomy and an affirmation of the crucial role that humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery. In her sweeping work of narrative science, Levesque shows how astronomers in this scrappy and evolving field are going beyond the machines to infuse creativity and passion into the stars and space — and inspire us all to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets. Levesque will be joined in conversation by Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.