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Your Ticket to the Universe

A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

Your Ticket to the Universe( )
Author: Arcand, Kimberly K.
Watzke, Megan
Foreword by: Livio, Mario
ISBN:978-1-58834-375-8
Publication Date:Apr 2013
Publisher:Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Imprint:Smithsonian Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

"An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos. Accompanied by dramatic visuals, Your Ticket to the Universe is a hybrid coffee-table book and field guide. Beginning with our home planet, Your Ticket to the Universe embarks on an entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops known in the cosmos. Learn about objects nearby within our Solar System (our backyard in space, so to speak) as well as wonders that are found...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Science / Space Science / Astronomy
Science / Space Science / Cosmology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):10.92 x 8.034 x 0.741 Inches
Book Weight:2.068 Pounds
Author Biography
Arcand, Kimberly K. (Author)
Mario Livio was born in 1945 in Romania. When he was 5 years old, he immigrated with his grandparents to Israel. He received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a M.Sc. degree in theoretical particle physics at the Weizmann Institute, and a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Tel-Aviv University. He was a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1991. He is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.

He has published over 400 scientific papers. He has also written several books including The Accelerating Universe, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, Is God a Mathematician?, and Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. The Golden Ratio received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize.

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