A Brief Welcome to the Universe : : A Pocket-Sized Tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott.
A pocket-style edition distilled from the New York Times bestsellerAwaiting you in this breezy book is a whirlwind tour through the cosmos—a journey of exploration to other planets, stars, and galaxies, and from black holes to time loops. With acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- A Note to the Reader
- 1 Size and Scale of the Universe
- 2 Pluto’s Place in the Solar System
- 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars
- 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy
- 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole
- 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang
- 7 Inflation and the Multiverse
- 8 Our Future in the Universe
- Acknowledgments
- Index