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Summary:
- A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing thephysics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmos.
"So you've fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, right? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel though a wormhole? You want the wonders of the universe revealed before your very eyes? Well stop, because all that will probably kill you. From mundane comets in our solar backyard to exotic remnants of the Big Bang, from dying stars to young galaxies, the universe may be beautiful, but it's treacherous. Using metaphors and easy-to-understand language, How to Die in Space breathes fresh life into astrophysics, unveiling how particles and forces and fields interplay to create the drama in the heavens above us."-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTERPLANETARY THREATS
- Vacuum
- Asteroids and Comets
- Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
- Cosmic Rays
- pt. TWO INTERSTELLAR THREATS
- Stellar Nurseries
- Stellar-Mass Black Holes
- Planetary Nebulae
- White Dwarves and Novae
- pt. THREE INTERGALACTIC THREATS
- Supernovae
- Neutron Stars and Magnetars
- Supermassive Black Holes
- Quasars and Blazars
- pt. FOUR SPECULATIVE THREATS
- Cosmic Strings and Miscellaneous Spacetime Defects
- Dark Matter
- Hostile Aliens
- Wormholes.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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Call Numbers:
- QB461 .S87 2020eb
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ISBNs:
- 9781643134390
1643134396
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1153077950
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Other Control Numbers:
- EBC6184612 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301250095