Dispatches from Planet 3 : 32 (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Earth Is but a Speck -- Celestial Neighborhood -- TWO. Bedazzled by a Comet -- THREE. To Be . . . or Not to Be a Planet -- FOUR. The Watery Allure of Mars -- FIVE. Rings, Rings, Rings -- SIX. The Baffling White Dwarf Star -- SEVEN. The Star No Bigger Than a City -- EIGHT. Ye Old Black Hole -- NINE. As Though No Other Name Ever Existed -- TEN. Like This World of Ours -- Realm of the Galaxies -- ELEVEN. Our Spiraling Home -- TWELVE. The Woman Who Chased Galaxies -- THIRTEEN. Stuff of the Heavens -- FOURTEEN. Recipe for the Stars -- FIFTEEN. Find a Way Around It -- SIXTEEN. Dark Matters -- SEVENTEEN. Cosmic Funhouse -- EIGHTEEN. Rivers of Galaxies -- NINETEEN. The Big Dipper Is Crying -- TWENTY. Einstein's Symphony -- TWENTY-ONE. Underground Astronomy -- TWENTY-TWO. Eavesdropping on the Universe -- TWENTY-THREE. The Once and Future Quasar -- To the Big Bang and Beyond -- TWENTY-FOUR. Finding a Cosmic Yardstick -- TWENTY-FIVE. The Cosmologist Left Behind -- TWENTY-SIX. The Primeval Atom -- TWENTY-SEVEN. Proving the Big Bang -- TWENTY-EIGHT. It's Now Einstein's Universe -- TWENTY-NINE. The Big Burp -- THIRTY. The Great Escape -- THIRTY-ONE. Meet the Multiverse -- THIRTY-TWO. When the Universe Began, What Time Was It? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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