Lucie Green

The Universe In Your Pocket (eBook, ePUB)

Ten Cosmic Maps that Explain Everything

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Universe In Your Pocket takes the reader on a journey through space and time using ten of the most game-changing and perspective-shifting maps ever created - each representing a major scientific advance and a startling new way of thinking about the universe.

From the celestial maps of the ancients to a cutting-edge visualisation of the shape of the entire universe, we journey through its magnetic fields, along the fluctuating rivers of the solar winds to gravitational oases known as Lagrange points and the surface of Mars, through Black Holes and the enigma of Dark Energy, all the way to the very edges of the cosmos. Each chapter describes the theoretical leaps and feats of exploration that went into the creation of each map, the aspect of the universe it lays bare as well as the mysteries it reveals.

Written by an astrophysicist at the forefront of this adventure, The Universe In Your Pocket is a small book about human curiosity on the grandest scale. Like the maps themselves, it offers a way to grasp the unimaginable and apprehend the unknown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529934359
• Artikelnr.: 72249318

Autorenporträt

Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics working at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, presently investigating the physics behind the largest eruptions in the Solar System - known as coronal mass ejections. She also helps create the space missions of the future, including with NASA, Japan's space agency and, currently, as part of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission to get close to the Sun and provide images from a totally new vantage point. Lucie is the author of one previous book, 15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun (Viking, 2016), is the Chief Stargazer for the Society for Popular Astronomy, co-Chair of Astrofest, a member of the advisory Board for the Science Museum and has presented numerous science programmes on BBC television and radio. She has been awarded prizes by the Royal Society and the Institute of Physics for her work in public outreach and science communication.