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Astronomy Books
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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,080 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 600 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 488,623 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 528 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,515 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,422 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,675 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,932 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,544 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,067 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,985 ratings — published 2004
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,301 ratings — published 2010
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 142 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,499 ratings — published 2020
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,279 ratings — published 2004
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,118 ratings — published 2018
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,242 ratings — published 2008
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,118 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,328 ratings — published 2003
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 121 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,271 ratings — published 1983
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,791 ratings — published 2002
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,152 ratings — published 2012
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 809 ratings — published 1990
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,872 ratings — published 2005
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,080 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,719 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,961 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,953 ratings — published 2004
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,949 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,739 ratings — published 1994
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,688 ratings — published 1993
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,413 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,182 ratings — published 1995
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,107 ratings — published 2011
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,884 ratings — published 2002
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,442 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.44 — 531 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,793 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,611 ratings — published 2016
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.31 — 711 ratings — published 2012
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,247 ratings — published 2008
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,615 ratings — published 1999
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,285 ratings — published 2010
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,596 ratings — published 2018
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,982 ratings — published 2012
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,049 ratings — published 1952
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,151 ratings — published 1988
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,187 ratings — published 2002
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,446 ratings — published 1994
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,560 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,322 ratings — published 2018
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.49 — 976 ratings — published 2008
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,479 ratings — published 2020
“Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”
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“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy- guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems- stars with orbiting planets. And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up- many people feel small, cause their small and the universe is big. But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.”
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