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Turn Right At Orion

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Turn Right At Orion
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mitchell Begelman
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 140
Category/GenreCosmology and the universe
ISBN/Barcode 9780738205175
ClassificationsDewey:523.1
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Imprint Perseus Books
Publication Date 1 October 2001
Publication Country United States

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.