Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science which is the study of celestial objects (such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae), the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.

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Astronomy Books

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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

130 books — 42 voters

The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt by Jane B. Sellers

How the Stars Fell into the Sky by Jerrie Oughton

Astrotheology

50 books — 3 voters

Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths

The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths

Classical Mechanics by Charles P. Poole Jr.

Not Pop-Science - Physics

131 books — 33 voters

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Never Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky

Sci-Fi, History, Science

140 books — 16 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Women Physicists and Astronomers in Fiction

46 books — 10 voters

The Babylonian Astrolabe by Rumen K. Kolev

"*Astro*"

112 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Astronomy”

“ Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. ”
― Giordano Bruno

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“ Our universe grants every soul a twin- a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love. ”
― Julie Dillon

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