Origins fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution
| Main Author: | Tyson, Neil deGrasse. |
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| Other Authors: | Goldsmith, Donald. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface : A meditation on the origins of science and the science of origins
- Overture : The greatest story ever told
- pt. 1. The origin of the universe. In the beginning
- Antimatter matters
- Let there be light
- Let there be dark
- Let there be more dark
- One universe or many?
- pt. 2. The origin of galaxies and cosmic structure. Discovering galaxies
- The origin of structure
- pt. 3. The origin of the stars. Dust to dust
- The elemental zoo
- pt. 4. The origin of planets. When worlds were young
- Between the planets
- Worlds unnumbered : planets beyond the solar system
- pt. 5. The origin of life. Life in the universe
- The origin of life on Earth
- Searching for life in the solar system
- Searching for life in the Milky Way galaxy
- Coda : The search for ourselves in the cosmos.