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Book

Under alien skies : a sightseer's guide to the universe

Call Number

  • 520 P698.2 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Physical Description

xiii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

Drawing on the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination, a renowned astronomer and science communicator takes us on an immersive tour of the universe to view ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer, including the strange, beautiful shadows cast by a hundred thousand stars.

Contents

  • One small step : the Moon
  • Red sky at night : Mars
  • Vermin of the sky : asteroids and comets
  • One ringed world to rule them all : Saturn
  • At the solar system's edge : Pluto
  • A mini-solar system : planets around red dwarf stars
  • Tatooine's sky : planets with two suns
  • A planet with a million suns : globular clusters
  • Inside star factories : nebulae
  • The last sky you'll ever see : black holes
  • Epilogue.

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