![]() ![]() Magazine will be familiar with many of the 42 essays collected here, while newcomers will profit from Tyson's witty and entertaining description of being pulled apart atom by atom into a black hole, and other, closer-to-earth, and cheerier, topics. In the last section the author gives his take on the hot subject of intelligent design. He tackles popular myths (is the sun yellow?) and takes movie directors-most notably James Cameron-to task for spectacular goofs. Tyson doesn't restrict his musings to astrophysics, but wanders into related fields like relativity and particle physics, which he explains just as clearly as he does Lagrangian points, where we someday may park interplanetary filling stations. Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, in both space and time. ![]() ![]() Great deals on one book or all books in the series. What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way? According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. Find the complete Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries book series by Neil deGrasse Tyson. ![]()
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