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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.

But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.

While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

ISBN-13: 9780393609394

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Norton W. W. & Company Inc.

Publication Date: 05-02-2017

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 4.80(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

1 The Greatest Story Ever Told 13

2 On Earth as in the Heavens 28

3 Let There Be Light 40

4 Between the Galaxies 52

5 Dark Matter 64

6 Dark Energy 81

7 The Cosmos on the Table 100

8 On Being Round 117

9 Invisible Light 129

10 Between the Planets 145

11 Exoplanet Earth 157

12 Reflections on the Cosmic Perspective 171

Acknowledgments 185

Index 187