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A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy
Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What are sunspots? What is a shooting star? Was there ever life on Mars? This book answers the fascinating questions that we have been asking ourselves for hundreds of years. Using non-technical language, the authors summarize current astronomical knowledge, taking care to incl...more
Paperback, 294 pages
Published
May 1st 2010
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 2010)
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Saw it on a library shelf and thought, hmmm. 250 astronomical questions with answers (averages at about 1 per page. Plenty of pictures and diagrams which can make understanding of many terms far more comprehendible. Topics vary from the sort a school child may ask to quite complex ones. Although with astronomy that can often be simply a case of just asking "why" again and again. I found it to be the sort of book I would pick up for 15 minutes, read a few pages at random and put down.
May 14, 2013
Leah
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