Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tod R. Lauer is an astronomer on the research staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He was a member of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera team, and is a founding member of the Nuker Team. His research interests includes observational searches for massive black holes in the centers of galaxies, the structure of elliptical galaxies, stellar populations, large scale structure of the Universe, and astronomical image processing. He is presently PI of the Destiny JDEM concept study. Asteroid 3135 Lauer is named for him.