Larson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne was the first person to discover what burns at the heart of stars. But she didn't start out as the groundbreaking scientist she would eventually become. She started out as a girl full of curiosity, hoping one day to unlock the mysteries of the universe. With lyrical, evocative text by Kirsten W. Larson and extraordinary illustrations by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAYStille, Darlene R.
Summary: "An overview of the structure and nature of objects that make up the universe. Includes diagrams, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.1 STIKaku, Michio
Summary: "Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 KAKJayawardhana, Ray.
Summary: "Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them For more than eighty years, brilliant and eccentric scientists around the world have been searching for the incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos. Trillions of these ghostly particles pass through our bodies every second, but they are so pathologically shy that neutrino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 JAYDunkley, Jo
Summary: Jo Dunkley combines her expertise as an astrophysicist with her talents as a teacher and writer in this lively and exceptionally clear introduction to the structure and history of the universe and its enduring mysteries. Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few of us understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 DUNDillow, Gordon L.
Summary: "Combining history, popular science, and in-depth reporting, here is a fascinating account of asteroids and other space objects that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us even now--as well as a look at the preparations humanity is making against asteroid-caused catastrophe. Journalist Gordon L. Dillow examines what a small but dedicated group of astronomers have long known--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 523.44 DILScudder, Jillian
Summary: Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a surreal place the Universe can be. In this light-hearted book she delves into some of the more arcane facts that her work has revealed, and tells us how we have actually managed to discover these amazing truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 SCUSummary: "An overview of the structure and nature of objects that make up the universe. Includes diagrams, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523 UNICox, Brian
Summary: At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe's most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "How scientists are using simulations to recreate the universe, revealing the hidden nature of reality Cosmology is a tricky science-no one can make their own stars, planets, or galaxies to test its theories. But over the last few decades a new kind of physics has emerged to fill the gap between theory and experimentation. Harnessing the power of modern supercomputers, cosmologists have built...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.101 PONWill, Clifford M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 WILPrescod-Weinstein, Chanda
Summary: "Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 PRETyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science TysonTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: "Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: "The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission- told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries-11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch. Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, will do so in 2015. The fantastic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 BELBowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
Summary: The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 522 BOWScharf, Caleb A.
Summary: "A groundbreaking revision of the Copernican principle Though the concept of "the universe" suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others--a single slice of an infinity of parallel realities. In The Copernicus Complex, the renowned astrophysicist and author Caleb Scharf takes us on a cosmic adventure like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 SCHThorne, Kip S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 THOBarrow, John D.
Summary: "Writing with rare stylistic verve and a real commitment to lucid explanations of complex ideas, John D. Barrow has produced a book that "expertly encapsulates our knowledge, speculations, and questions about the origins of the universe" (John Paulos, author of Innumeracy) and is as "up-to-date as the fixing of the Hubble telescope" (Martin Gardner)." "There is no more fascinating question in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 BARCowen, Ron
Summary: An account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory. Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919, yet that is when he became immortal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 COWPeebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 PEESutter, Paul M.
Summary: "So you've fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, right? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel though a wormhole? You want the wonders of the universe revealed before your very eyes? Well stop, because all that will probably kill you. From mundane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 TUCTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016