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The Story of the Universe in 100 Stars

The Story of the Universe in 100 Stars

Hardcover

Sports GeneralAstronomy & Space

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ISBN10: 1615197362
ISBN13: 9781615197361
Publisher: Experiment
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
With roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, the cosmos is simply too vast for an unabridged tell-all. But here's the next best thing: 100 stars--bright and faint, near and far, famous and obscure, long dead and as-yet unborn, red, yellow, blue, and white (but, as you'll learn, never green)--handpicked by astronomer Florian Freistetter because they have the very best stories to tell:
  • GRB 080319B, the farthest we've seen into space with the naked eye
  • Gamma Draconis, the star that proved Earth rotates on its axis
  • V1364 CYGNI, pivotal in the discovery of dark matter
  • 72 Tauri, definitive evidence for Einstein's theory of relativity
  • V1, which revealed horizons beyond the Milky Way
  • Algol, called the Demon Star for its mysterious blinking--and many more!

Freistetter's short, easy-to-read profiles not only invite you to gaze into the past and future of the universe, they introduce a stellar cast of scientists who came before: from Annie Jump Cannon, who revolutionized how we classify the stars, to Dorrit Hoffleit, who first counted them. Enjoy your journey through the cosmos. . . .

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