Merlin's tour of the universe A traveler's guide to blue moons and black holes, Mars, stars & everything far
Book - 2024
Merlin, a fictional timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth's history. In this journey through the cosmos, Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- miscellanies
Miscellanies
Informational works
Instructional and educational works
Trivia and miscellanea - Published
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Ashland, Oregon :
Blackstone Publishing
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Revised and updated for the twenty-first century
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781665019859
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Earth
- Everybody's favorite place
- II. Moon
- From werewolves to blue moons
- III. Planets
- Meet the family. There's eight of them. Get over it.
- IV. Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors
- Debris of the solar system revealed
- V. Sun
- Always a hot topic
- VI. Stargazer
- Stars, constellations, and legends
- VII. Gravity
- Weighty questions from all over
- VIII. Stars
- They rotate. They explode. They collapse.
- IX. Light & Telescopes
- The food source for all astronomical thought
- X. Galaxies
- Something to say about all trillion of them
- XI. Time, Space, and A Sense of Where You Are
- What's "up"? What's time? What's space?
- XII. Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe
- Two out of three are to be avoided
- XIII. Life: Here and There
- Earth and Omniscia and...
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Index