A brief welcome to the universe a pocket-sized tour
"This is a condensed edition of Welcome to the Universe - essentially a pocket-sized version of the original "astrophysical tour" of the cosmos. In 8 chapters (compared to the original 24 chapters), the reader learns the essential astrophysics everyone should know -- about the size an...
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2876229.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- Size and scale of the universe / Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Pluto's place in the solar system / Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The lives and deaths of stars / Michael A. Strauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The search for life in the galaxy / Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Our Milky Way and its supermassive black hole / Michael A. Strauss
- Galaxies, the expanding universe, and the big bang / Michael A. Strauss
- Inflation and the multiverse / J. Richard Gott
- Our future in the universe / J. Richard Gott.