This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the...
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Over the centuries, humankind has dwelled on the question of how the Solar System came into being around 4.5 billion years ago. In the 21st Century, our pursuit of knowledge is as insatiable as ever, and new technology advances our understanding all...
Collecting the opinion pieces of Sir Patrick Moore into a single anthology has proven to be an emotional trip down memory lane; a sharp reminder, to paraphrase Brian May, that while there will never be another Patrick Moore, we were lucky to have...
The Universe Before the Big...
"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's...
Астрономия, Другие научные
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
John Brockman brings together the world’s best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek, and Brian Cox—to explain the universe in all wondrous...
Space is full of surprises, and it seems like not a month goes by without scientists revealing another thrilling discovery.
Who could forget the awe-inspiring images of Pluto, sent back by the New Horizons mission, or the fascinating news that Mars...
Астрономия, Другие научные
The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Landmark Science Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of the classic TV series Cosmos struck a chord with viewers, garnered 12 Emmy Award nominations, and is headed straight into schools as a science teacher’s instructional aid. It’s also an agenda-driven vehicle for...
What is the void? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty Space--nothing--exist?
To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural...
The aim of this book is to describe a particular approach to cosmology, known as cosmic topology, that seeks to discover the overall size and shape of the universe, one of the biggest questions in cosmology for more than 25 centuries.
Along with...