Merlin's tour of the universe : a traveler's guide to blue moons and black holes, Mars, stars & everything far

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"In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth's history. Merlin's friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time-da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubbl...

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Astronomy

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Cosmology

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ISBN:

9781665019859

Edition:

Revised and updated edition

Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes index
Originally published in 1989 by Columbia University Press

Contents:

Earth : everybody's favorite place
Moon : from werewolves to blue moons
Planets : meet the family. There's eight of them. Get over it
Asteroids, comets, and meteors : debris of the solar system revealed
Sun : always a hot topic
Stargazer : stars, constellations, and legends
Gravity : weighty questions from all over
Stars : they rotate. They explode. They collapse
Light & telescopes : the food source for all astronomical thought
Galaxies : something to say about all trillion of them
Time space, and a sense of where you are : what's "up"? What's time? What's space?
Black holes, quasars, and the universe : two out of three are to be avoided
Life : here and there : earth and Omniscia and

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3351017

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