Chris LintottAccidental Astronomy
How Random Discoveries Shape the Science of Space
Chris Lintott is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, after a stint at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, and the winner of the American Astronomical Society’s prestigious Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize. He is best known as co-presenter of the BBC’s long-running Sky at Night program. He is the author of The Crowd and the Cosmos and coauthor of Bang! He lives in Oxford, UK.
Chapter List
Chapter 1 Living in our accidental Universe
Chapter 2 Is it aliens?
Chapter 3 The fountains of Enceladus
Chapter 4 The Scout from really, really far away
Chapter 5 Celestial Vermin
Chapter 6 Penguins over Venus
Chapter 7 Staring into Space
Chapter 8 Listening to the Universe
Chapter 9 The Oldest Light of All
Chapter 10 The Changing Sky
