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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To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

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A Brief History of the Universe (And Our Place in It)

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Astronomy Books

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

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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Martian Aeolian Geomorphology by Zhibao Dong

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Find Where The Wind Goes by Mae C. Jemison

David Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel by Robert A. Black

Hidden Figures: African-Americans

25 books — 14 voters

Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas by Roger W. Sinnott

The Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terence Dickinson

Amateur Astronomy

43 books — 13 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

Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley Rowbotham

THE NAVIGATOR WHO CROSSED THE ICE WALLS by Claudio Nocelli

Flat Earth Books

22 books — 12 voters

The Babylonian Astrolabe by Rumen K. Kolev

"*Astro*"

112 books — 2 voters

What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant

Young Archimedes and Other Stories by Aldous Huxley

Carl Sagan's Reading List

34 books — 9 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Astronomy”

“ He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever ”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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“ If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

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