The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
By: Emily M. Levesque
4.14
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
The story of the people who see beyond the stars Humans from the earliest civilizations were spe…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Why do we study the universe? Why do we look at the sky and ask questions, build telescopes, travel to the very limits of our planet to answer them? Why do we stargaze? We don't know exactly why, but we must."-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"In a community that so deeply values the planet we're on, the summits we visit, and the human curiosity we bring to the skies, I have to hope we can find a way to respect and share our own humanity, our knowledge of the cosmos, and our love for the mountains that make our work possible. They're the windows we're able to climb to that give us a glimpse of the universe."-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"An astoundingly perfect black void sat where the sun had been, surrounded by a jagged white nimbus of light that nearly brought me to tears. This was the solar corona, the hot outer edges of the sun's atmosphere that drive a flood of particles into space and generate a phenomenon known as a stellar wind, a key property of how our sun and other stars evolve. I had studied this particular aspect of stars for almost my entire life, using a dozen of the best telescopes in the world, but this was the first time I could see a star's wind with my own naked-eye. Around us, the sky was a strangely uniform dome of sunsets in every direction, and the warmth of sunlight had been replaced by an almost primal up-the-neck chill. It felt like the planet itself had been put on pause at this particular place and moment in time, a frozen moment of "look."-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"Dinner on Kitt Peak wrapped up in time for everyone to head outside and watch the sunset together before scattering to the telescope, a time-honored tradition of astronomers everywhere. If asked, we would all supply some good practical scientific reasoning behind the habit - you get a glimpse of what sort of night it's going to be, a sense of upcoming weather, the sky quality, and so on - but the basic reason remains that it's simply beautiful. Standing on a remote mountain with the earth stretching out into the distance and slowly spinning away from our nearest star, it's a wonderful quiet moment to enjoy the vastness and stillness and colors as the night begins. On any given evening, I can promise you that scattered across the planet are a few small groups of astronomers, standing on dome catwalks or dining hall patios or even just a stretch of hard-packed earth and pausing in their work for a few moments to admire the simple beauty of the sky."-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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3. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
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Format: 448 pages, ebook
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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4. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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5. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
6. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
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7. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
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Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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8. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
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Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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9. Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
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3.79
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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10. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
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Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
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Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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12. Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
By: Laura Mersini-Houghton
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Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
By: Emily M. Levesque
4.14
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
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"Why do we study the universe? Why do we look at the sky and ask questions, build telescopes, travel to the very limits of our planet to answer them? Why do we stargaze? We don't know exactly why, but…"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"In a community that so deeply values the planet we're on, the summits we visit, and the human curiosity we bring to the skies, I have to hope we can find a way to respect and share our own humanity, …"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"An astoundingly perfect black void sat where the sun had been, surrounded by a jagged white nimbus of light that nearly brought me to tears. This was the solar corona, the hot outer edges of the sun'…"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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15. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
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Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system… read more
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16. Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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17. The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age
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18. The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
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19. First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
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"Do not fall into a black hole."-Emma Chapman, First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
20. Meteorite: The Stones from Outer Space That Made Our World
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
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