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The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories

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Astronomy is a science that stretches. The urge to know, to see even deeper into the ocean of space. stretches our machines to the limit and spurs us on to the development of better, more sensitive, and more sophisticated technology that is inevitably useful on Earth.
It stretches our imagination, too, this reaching out across light years to touch a star, this wondering about how it all began and where it is all going. Ultimately this has to be the true value of astronomy, this effect on the …