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| Title Statement | Merlin's tour of the universe: a traveler's guide to blue moons and black holes, Mars, stars & everything far / Neil deGrasse Tyson. |
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| Author | Tyson, Neil deGrasse |
| Publication | Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing,[2024]©2024 |
| Edition | Revised and updated edition. |
| Extent of Item | x, 291 pages |
| ISBN | 9781665019859 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07908864 |
| General 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 ... |
| Summary | "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 Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse. Merlin's Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works."-- |
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| By Topic | Astronomy |
| Astrophysics | |
| Cosmic physics | |
| Cosmology | |
| Planets | |
| Stars | |
| By Genre | Trivia and miscellanea |
