Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge by Tyson, Neil De Grasse

Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

Cosmic Horizons illuminates the most recent discoveries of modern astrophysics with essays by leading astronomers, including NASA...
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Author: Neil De Grasse Tyson
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Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge by Tyson, Neil De Grasse

Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

¥6,054

Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

¥6,054
Author: Neil De Grasse Tyson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Cosmic Horizons illuminates the most recent discoveries of modern astrophysics with essays by leading astronomers, including NASA scientists. The book also features profiles of astronomers such as Carl Sagan and Georges Lema tre (father of the Big Bang theory), case studies that cover the controversial evidence for the possibility of life on Mars, and stunning four-color photographs throughout. Written for the general reader, Cosmic Horizons makes the complex, abstract areas of astronomy and astrophysics--from the Big Bang to black holes--accessible and comprehensible to the public. Complementing the museum's acclaimed Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center exhibition, the book investigates how the universe expands to produce galaxies, stars, and planets, and, perhaps, life on other worlds. It also examines some of the emerging technologies that make these discoveries possible.

With more than eighty full-color images and a resource section that includes a bibliography and an extensive glossary, Cosmic Horizons offers a new appreciation of the complexities of time and space and a greater understanding of our fragile planet and the universe beyond.




Author: Neil De Grasse Tyson
Publisher: New Press
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 253
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.24h x 7.54w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781565846029


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/28/2001 pg. 80
Scitech Book News 09/01/2001 pg. 51

About the Author
Steven Soter is a member of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. He was a co-writer, with Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, of the Cosmos television series, and co-author with Ann Druyan of the new Hayden Planetarium's inaugural sky show.

Neil de Grasse Tyson is director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium. He has authored five books on the universe, including The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. He is also a monthly columnist for Natural History magazine and was the project scientist for the Hall of the Universe in the Rose Center for Earth and Space.

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