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A BBC Sky at Night Best Astronomy and Space Book of the Year“[A] luminous guide to the cosmos...Jo Dunkley swoops from Earth to the observable limits, then explores stellar life cycles, dark matter, cosmic evolution and the soup-to-nuts history of the Universe.”—Nature“A grand tour of space and time, from our nearest planetary neighbors to the edge of the observable Universe...If you feel like refreshing your background knowledge...this little gem certainly won't disappoint.”—Govert Schilling, BBC Sky at NightMost of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is really out there? How did it all begin? Where are we going?Jo Dunkley begins in Earth's neighborhood, explaining the nature of the Solar System, the stars in our night sky, and the Milky Way. She traces the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang fourteen billion years ago, past the birth of the Sun and our planets, to today and beyond. She then explains cutting-edge debates about such perplexing phenomena as the accelerating expansion of the universe and the possibility that our universe is only one of many. O

Who reads Our Universe : An Astronomer’s Guide?

Author

Desconocido

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674248236

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Astronomy

Rating

4.5 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14