Dispatches from Planet 3 - Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond.

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Author(s): Bartusiak
Publisher: Yale University
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 320

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
1. Earth Is but a Speck......Page 17
2. Bedazzled by a Comet......Page 23
3. To Be . . . or Not to Be a Planet......Page 30
4. The Watery Allure of Mars......Page 38
5. Rings Rings Rings......Page 45
6. The Baffling White Dwarf Star......Page 51
7. The Star No Bigger Than a City......Page 58
8. Ye Old Black Hole......Page 66
9. As Though No Other Name Ever Existed......Page 74
10. Like This World of Ours......Page 81
11. Our Spiraling Home......Page 89
12. The Woman Who Chased Galaxies......Page 98
13. Stuff of the Heavens......Page 105
14. Recipe for the Stars......Page 112
15. Find a Way Around It......Page 126
16. Dark Matters......Page 131
17. Cosmic Funhouse......Page 138
18. Rivers of Galaxies......Page 145
19. The Big Dipper Is Crying......Page 151
20. Einsteins Symphony......Page 158
21. Underground Astronomy......Page 166
22. Eavesdropping on the Universe......Page 172
23. The Once and Future Quasar......Page 179
24. Finding a Cosmic Yardstick......Page 185
25. The Cosmologist Left Behind......Page 194
26. The Primeval Atom......Page 206
27. Proving the Big Bang......Page 213
28. Its Now Einsteins Universe......Page 220
29. The Big Burp......Page 230
30. The Great Escape......Page 236
31. Meet the Multiverse......Page 241
32. When the Universe Began What Time Was It......Page 249
Notes......Page 269
Bibliography......Page 291
Acknowledgments......Page 311
Index......Page 313