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Astronomy Books
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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 714 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,367 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,347 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 502 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 203,440 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,116 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,082 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,039 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,710 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,833 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,774 ratings — published 2004
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,989 ratings — published 2010
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 142 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,575 ratings — published 2020
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,340 ratings — published 2004
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,164 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,912 ratings — published 2018
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,915 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.22 — 417,662 ratings — published 2003
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,768 ratings — published 2002
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,769 ratings — published 2005
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 113 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,258 ratings — published 1983
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,573 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 108 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 789 ratings — published 1990
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,344 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,556 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,776 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,563 ratings — published 2004
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,480 ratings — published 1994
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,721 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,328 ratings — published 1993
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,264 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,467 ratings — published 1995
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 85 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,882 ratings — published 2002
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,800 ratings — published 2011
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 518 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,319 ratings — published 2013
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,205 ratings — published 1977
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,241 ratings — published 2008
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.75 — 30,253 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,514 ratings — published 2016
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.31 — 668 ratings — published 2012
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,949 ratings — published 2012
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,110 ratings — published 2010
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,112 ratings — published 1988
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,501 ratings — published 2018
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,104 ratings — published 1994
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,152 ratings — published 2002
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,032 ratings — published 1952
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,456 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,004 ratings — published 2018
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 968 ratings — published 2008
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,412 ratings — published 2020
“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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“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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astronomia and atronomy
