Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science which is the study of celestial objects (such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae), the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.

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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel – NASA's 1978 Women and Minority Pioneers Through Triumph and Tragedy

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story

On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

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Astronomy Books

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

117 books — 41 voters

ATY 2020 - Related to Maximilian Hell

67 books — 46 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Get Smart!

255 books — 117 voters

Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley Rowbotham

THE NAVIGATOR WHO CROSSED THE ICE WALLS by Claudio Nocelli

Flat Earth Books

17 books — 4 voters

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Sheikh's Mail-Order Bride by Marguerite Kaye

Historical Romances Featuring Lady Astronomers

7 books — 6 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky

The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook by Gleb Tsipursky

Never Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky

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140 books — 16 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Astronomy”

“ We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun. ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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“ Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. ”
― Galileo

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