Dr Stuart Clark is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, author of the GUARDIAN blog 'Across the Universe' and astrology correspondent for NEW SCIENTIST. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
It is no revelation that some data on the early Universe sit uneasily with the standard model of cosmology. But in his clued-up overview, astronomy journalist Stuart Clark's picture of the yawning gaps in our understanding of the cosmos is fuller than most * Nature magazine *