Welcome to the Universe

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining narrative propels you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space. How do stars live and die? Why did Pluto lose its planetary status? What are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it expanding and why is its expansion accelerating? Is our universe alone or part of an infinite multiverse? Answering these and many other questions, the authors open your eyes to the wonders of the cosmos, sharing their knowledge of how the universe works.Breathtaking in scope and stunningly illustrated throughout, Welcome to the Universe is for those who hunger for insights into our evolving universe that only world-class astrophysicists can provide.

Info autore

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss & J. Richard Gott

Relazione

"All three of these authors are experts in the field, and they are also engaging writers. This is a very good book. There is nothing on the market that quite matches it."--Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J Richard Gott, J. R. Gott, J. Richard Gott, Gott J. Richard, Michael Strauss, Michael A. Strauss, Strauss Michael A., Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780691157245
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15724-5
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 190 mm x 265 mm x 35 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Astronomia; popular science, Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, NATURE / Sky Observation, Cosmology & the universe, Popular astronomy & space, Cosmology and the universe, Popular astronomy and space, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology