The intimate universe
Subtitle: how the stars are closer than you think
By: Marek Kukula
Publisher: Quercus Publishing; Quercus
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781782067894; 9781784294878; 9781784291174; 9781782067900
Subjects: Astronomy; Popular works
Description: POPULAR ASTRONOMY & SPACE. The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely divorced from our everyday life. But in this new book Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, shows you the myriad ways we are intrinsically connected to the rest of the universe and how everything on Earth - from the ground beneath our feet to the technology in our pockets - has origins in space. Discover how rocks from space reveal what conditions are like at our planet's core, how the desolate surface of the moon holds ancient clues to Earth's earliest life forms, and how buried treasure in the Nile reveals the watery past of Mars.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Made of Starstuff; title: Cosmic Dating Agency; title: White Dielectric Material; title: The Big Bang on TV; title: Water Everywhere; title: Comet Culture; title: Alien Oceans; title: Invaders from Mars; title: Sunshine; title: Solar Power; title: Inconstant Moon; title: Moonstruck; title: On Stranger Tides; title: Small Worlds; title: And Yet It Moves; title: Dark Mysteries; title: Spinning Around; title: Time by the Sun; title: Solid Ground; title: Sky Metal; title: Written in the Stars; title: Exploding Stars; title: Far Futures; title: Space Culture; title: Acknowledgements; title: Index.