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.

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
White Holes
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Enlightenment
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong
A Brief History of the Universe (And Our Place in It)
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
Cosmos
A Brief History of Time
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
The Grand Design
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

Seneca
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us wil ...more
Seneca, Natural Questions

Nikola Tesla
Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we ...more
Nikola Tesla, Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

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