Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and that’s barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on every planet in the Solar System. But amid all this vastness, the Milky Way Galaxy, our Sun and the Earth are home to the only known life in the Universe – at least for now.With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox, and access to all the latest NASA mission information, Andrew Cohen takes readers on a voyage of discovery, via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding Universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all – how did it all begin? We now know more about those first moments of existence than we ever thought possible, and hidden in this story of how it all began are the clues to the fate of the Universe itself and everything in it.Praise for The Planets by Andrew Cohen and Professor Brian Cox:‘So staggering you go whoa!’ every few seconds … Cox is the Attenborough of the Solar System’ Guardian‘Spectacular. [Cox’s] ability to convey maximum information in a clear and minimalist style is so softly winning and persuasive’ Sunday Times‘Professor Brian Cox continues to boggle our minds’ Daily Mail‘It was life affirming, it was perspective shifting. It was beautifully made’ Fearne Cotton, The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Radio 2‘Amazing work’ Emma Barnett, Adrian Chiles, Radio 5 Live‘Starry-eyed Brian Cox is the only man for this job’ The Times‘Wow’ Evening Standard‘The professor makes us marvel at life on Earth’ iNews‘Excellent … a blend of enjoyable, accessible science and dreamlike wonder’ The Times‘Brian Cox breathes life into science again … breath-taking’ Guardian‘Fascinating … Good science’ Observer‘Extraordinary – at its best magically fascinating and full of vast, weird drama’ Radio TimesPraise for Professor Brian Cox:‘Cox’s romantic, lyrical approach to astrophysics all adds up to an experience that feels less like homework and more like having a story told to you. A really good story, too’ Guardian‘He bridges the gap between our childish sense of wonder and a rather more professional grasp of the scale of things’ Independent‘If you didn’t utter a wow watching the TV, you will while reading the book’ The Times‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianAndrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Planets. He has been responsible for a wide range of science documentaries, including The Planets, the Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live. He lives in London with his wife and three children.Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of The Planets, the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live.TV TIE IN WITH BBC SERIES PRESENTED BY BRIAN COXWILL HAVE FOREWORD BY BRIAN COXFULLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR THROUGHOUTEvery night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes more massive than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.The scope of this book is almost incomprehensible. It’s 25 trillion miles to our nearest neighbouring star, and there are 150 billion stars in our galaxy alone. At 13.7 billion years old and expanding at 67 kilometres a second, the Universe is so vast it seems audacious to imagine we can even begin to explore it. But that’s exactly what we have done. A new era of astronomy, driven by technological advances and new telescopes, has fundamentally transformed our view of the universe, making the 20th century’s telescopes look like something used by Galileo.Chapters cover the birth of a star in a stellar nursery, the power of a supermassive black hole as it flings a sun across space so fast it’s still travelling 10 million years later, and the chaos created as two galaxies collide. And then we’ll go back in time to the day without a yesterday, to witness the very beginning of time and space itself.Huge advances in scientific understanding mean that for the first time we can explore places we didn’t even know existed just ten years ago. We’ll come face to face with the Universe’s most surprising characters, and learn how their fates are intertwined with our own. It’s a drama of cosmic proportions.Competition: The;Planets;Almanac;A;Brief History of Time;Astrophysics for people in a hurry;Stargazing;Guide to the Night Sky;Cosmos;Seven brief lessons on physics;Human Universe;Limitless. Brian Cox;Stephen Hawking;Neil Degrasse Tyson;Carlo Rovelli;Carl Sagan;Tim Peake
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