Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science which is the study of celestial objects (such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae), the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.

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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
White Holes
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Enlightenment
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Insomniacs After School, vol. 6
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Dios - La ciencia - Las pruebas: El albor de una revolución
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Cosmos
A Brief History of Time
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
The Grand Design
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Get Smart!
253 books — 113 voters

NightWatch by Terence DickinsonSky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas by Roger W. SinnottTurn Left at Orion by Guy ConsolmagnoThe Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terence DickinsonUranometria 2000.0 by Wil Tirion
Amateur Astronomy
43 books — 13 voters
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Big History
266 books — 108 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Scientific Readings for Everyone
150 books — 72 voters


Galileo Galilei
I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work ... all the more willingly because I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis. To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he h ...more
Galileo Galilei, Frammenti e lettere

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.' Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.) ...more
Pierre-Simon Laplace

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