Turn Right at Orion

副标题: Travels Through the Cosmos

ISBN: 9780738205175

出版社: Basic Books

出版年: 2001-10-2

页数: 256

定价: USD 17.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

" Turn Right at Orion provides a delightful tour of the heavens, written with verve and imagination." -Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams . In this ingenious book, we are all aliens-reading what is in essence a message found in a bottle. Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative style that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars and of planets, and almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole-and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose how things work the way they do in the cosmos. Turn Right at Orion is a serious science book that reads like fiction.