From stone age to space age, every human who has looked up at the night sky has seen the same stars in the same patterns. They reveal our entire history, as well as hinting at our ultimate fate.In Beneath the Night, Stuart Clark tells the full story of this relationship. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Clark reveals the history of a fascination that has shaped our scientific understanding; helped...

Büyük Sorular dizisi okurun gündemine tarih boyunca insanların aklını kurcalamış temel felsefi ve bilimsel sorunları taşıyor. Bu sorulara en büyük düşünürlerin verdiği cevapları sunuyor. Büyük Sorular: Evren başlığında Stuart Clark astronominin, kozmolojinin ve varoluş meselesinin 20 temel sorusunu tartışıyor.Evren nedir?Evren ne kadar büyüktür?Evren kaç yaşındadır?Yıldızlar neden yapılmıştır?Dünya nasıl oluştu?Gezegenler neden yörüngede kalır?Eınsteın haklı mıydı?Kara delik nedir?Evren na...

Una historia de la humanidad contada a través de nuestra relación con las estrellas, perfecta para los lectores de Sapiens, de Yuval Noah Harari, y Siete breves lecciones de física, de Carlo Rovelli.Mirar al cielo nocturno en busca del sentido de la existencia es un sello distintivo de nuestra humanidad. Desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la Era Espacial, hemos contemplado las estrellas y nos hemos sentido hechizados por su majestuosidad y belleza....

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. How...

Europe is marching blindly into the First World War and Berlin is in a storm of nationalist marches and army recruitment. Albert Einstein anticipates the carnage to come when his university colleagues begin work on poison gas to 'shorten the war'. He is also struggling with the collapse of his marriage in the wake of an illicit affair. Increasingly isolated, Einstein finds his academic work sidelined with few people entertaining his outlandish new way of understanding the universe....

On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early Universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.The map contains anomalies that challenge our underst...

The Big Questions series enables renowned experts to tackle the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, providing answers from history's great thinkers. This ambitious project is a unique distillation of humanity's best ideas.In Big Questions: The Universe, Dr Stuart Clark tackles the 20 key questions of astronomy and cosm...

It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley - dynamic adventurer and astronomer - seeks the help of Isaac Newton in unravelling the problem, but though obsessed with understanding the orbits of the planets, Newton has problems of his own which could undermine the essential work.The reclusive mathematician ...

From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet.From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It's an environment that may even foster life.In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hu...

The European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang map, which contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the Universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Will we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What's at the bottom of a black hole? Are there Universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?

The true, cutting-edge story of man's epic quest to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining complex life.In 1995 two Swiss astronomers discovered a planet circling a star other than our Sun. This changed our perception of the Universe forever, proving that Earth and the other celestial bodies in our Solar System are not alone in outer space.Now, after two decades of exploration, more than 860 planets have been discovered, many of which are completel...

Eine Tour d'horizon bis an die Grenzen des KosmosIn zehn Kapiteln präsentiert Stuart Clark eine aktuelle Einführung in die Wissenschaft der Kosmologie: wie sie sich entwickelt hat, welche Konzepte und Personen sie maßgeblich geprägt haben, wo wir heute stehen – und wie es weitergehen könnte.Am 21. März 2013 veröffentlichte die Europäische Weltraumorganisation ESA eine neue Karte vom Echo des Urknalls. Diese – im Zuge der Planck-Mission erstellte – erste vol...