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Origins, Revised and Updated
- Narrator
- JD Jackson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as the now more than 5,000 detected exoplanets that promise to reveal exciting possibilities for life in the cosmos, and data from a new generation of ground-based and spaceborne observatories that have fundamentally changed what we know about the expanding universe―and maybe even the laws of physics themselves.
From the first image of a galaxy’s birth to tantalizing evidence of water not only on Mars but also on the asteroid Ceres, as well as on moons of Jupiter and Saturn, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct an exhilarating tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.
Critics Review
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“Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, Origins turns the spotlight on cosmic beginnings and shows how we got where we are today.”
Scientific American Book Club
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“Tyson and Goldsmith search the depths of the universe for clues to how billions of heavenly bodies, Earth, and life itself began. They energetically cover the breadth of modern cosmology.”
Science News
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“An accessible and extremely well written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics, and exobiology.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“The most informative, congenia,l and accessible general look at cosmology to come along since Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series…General readers of every stripe will benefit from the authors’ sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable presentation. If the casual book buyer purchases one science book this year, this should be the one.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Who can ask for better cosmic tour guides?”
Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center
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Details
- Author
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
- Narrator
- JD Jackson
- Duration
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200951987
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Cosmology and the universe, Astronomy, space and time
Synopsis
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as the now more than 5,000 detected exoplanets that promise to reveal exciting possibilities for life in the cosmos, and data from a new generation of ground-based and spaceborne observatories that have fundamentally changed what we know about the expanding universe―and maybe even the laws of physics themselves. From the first image of a galaxy’s birth to tantalizing evidence of water not only on Mars but also on the asteroid Ceres, as well as on moons of Jupiter and Saturn, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct an exhilarating tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.
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