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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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

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Chinese Astrology for Beginners by Althea S.T.

Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean Louis De Esque

CHINESE ASTROLOGY FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING by Althea S.T.

Chinese Astrology for Wealth and Prosperity by Althea S.T.

No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again by sarah-editor-simons

Crotch Full Of Stars

104 books — 5 voters

The Babylonian Astrolabe by Rumen K. Kolev

"*Astro*"

112 books — 2 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

130 books — 41 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

Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley Rowbotham

THE NAVIGATOR WHO CROSSED THE ICE WALLS by Claudio Nocelli

Flat Earth Books

17 books — 4 voters

The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

New Space Capitalism by Rainer Zitelmann

Stargazers-Romances With Hero Or Heroine Astronomer, Astrologer, Or Astronaut

58 books — 22 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Astronomy”

“ Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe? Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. ...more ”
― Ann Druyan

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“ Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. ”
― Galileo

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