To Infinity...and Beyond!

Have you always wanted to learn more about the solar system and the universe? This is your chance, with these spaced-out titles!

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To Infinity...and Beyond!

Have you always wanted to learn more about the solar system and the universe? This is your chance, with these spaced-out titles!

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Taxi from another planet : conversations with drivers about life in the universe
Cockell, Charles S.
Ebook
Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans-taxi drivers, to be precise. If you've ever sat in the back seat of a taxi, you know that cabbies...

001.942 Cockell 2022

Infinity in the palm of your hand : fifty wonders that reveal an extraordinary universe
Chown, Marcus
Ebook
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube. Fact: The electrical energy...

500 Chown 2019

Catching stardust : comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system
Starkey, Natalie
Paper Book
An up-close and personal look at comets and how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our place in the solar system. Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling...

523.2 Starkey 2018

Exoplanets : diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system
Summers, Michael E.
Paper Book
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than...

523.24 Summers 2017

Imagined life : a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals
Trefil, James
Paper Book
It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far-...

576.839 Trefil 2019

The future of humanity : terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth
Kaku, Michio
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies....

629.455 Kaku 2018

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