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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 756 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,112 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 605 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,715 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 538 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,607 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 — 40,968 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,926 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,319 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 — 104,334 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,133 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,072 ratings — published 2004
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 147 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,889 ratings — published 2020
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,756 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,651 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 — 7,304 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,742 ratings — published 2018
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 124 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,274 ratings — published 1983
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,953 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,543 ratings — published 2010
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,797 ratings — published 2002
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 812 ratings — published 1990
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,915 ratings — published 2005
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,317 ratings — published 2012
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 156,620 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 44,142 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,029 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,088 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 — 18,075 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,850 ratings — published 1994
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 92 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,307 ratings — published 2002
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,477 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,829 ratings — published 1993
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,230 ratings — published 2011
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,423 ratings — published 1995
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,549 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 536 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,311 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,653 ratings — published 2016
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,803 ratings — published 1999
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 728 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 — 5,250 ratings — published 2008
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 — 8,344 ratings — published 2010
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,629 ratings — published 2018
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,002 ratings — published 2012
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,054 ratings — published 1952
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,167 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 62 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,576 ratings — published 1994
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,441 ratings — published 2018
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,596 ratings — published 2023
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.49 — 983 ratings — published 2008
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,606 ratings — published 2015
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
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“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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