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Turn Right At Orion
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Turn Right At Orion
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Mitchell Begelman
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:272 | Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | Cosmology and the universe |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780738205175
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Classifications | Dewey:523.1 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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Imprint |
Perseus Books
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Publication Date |
1 October 2001 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative style that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars and of planets, and almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole-and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose how things work the way they do in the cosmos. Turn Right at Orion is a serious science book that reads like fiction.
Author Biography
Mitchell Begelman is Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Fellow of the Joint Institute for labouratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the author of many research papers on astrophysics and the co-author-with Sir Martin Rees-of the acclaimed popular science book, Gravity's Fatal Attraction, which won the 1996 American Institute of Physics Writing Award.
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