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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 748 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,202 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 492,214 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 530 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,860 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,757 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,801 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,130 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,948 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,102 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,028 ratings — published 2004
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,718 ratings — published 2020
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,564 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,489 ratings — published 2004
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,264 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,043 ratings — published 2018
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 123 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,273 ratings — published 1983
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,367 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 434,410 ratings — published 2003
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,798 ratings — published 2002
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,236 ratings — published 2012
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 812 ratings — published 1990
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,895 ratings — published 2005
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,967 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,951 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,007 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,031 ratings — published 2004
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,023 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,800 ratings — published 1994
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,448 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,777 ratings — published 1993
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,881 ratings — published 1995
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,177 ratings — published 2011
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,112 ratings — published 2002
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,507 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 532 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,065 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,638 ratings — published 2016
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.31 — 717 ratings — published 2012
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,249 ratings — published 2008
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,708 ratings — published 1999
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,317 ratings — published 2010
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,607 ratings — published 2018
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,994 ratings — published 2012
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,051 ratings — published 1952
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,164 ratings — published 1988
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,193 ratings — published 2002
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,523 ratings — published 1994
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,585 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,398 ratings — published 2018
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.49 — 979 ratings — published 2008
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,731 ratings — published 2022
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy- guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems- stars with orbiting planets. And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up- many people feel small, cause their small and the universe is big. But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.”
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