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THE MILKY WAY - MOIYA MCTIER KARTONIERT (TB)

In this approachable and fascinating biography of the galaxy  an astrophysicist and folklorist
details everything humans have discovered—from the Milky Way's formation to its eventual death
and what else there is to learn about the universe we call home. After a few billion years of
bearing witness to life on Earth  of watching one hundred billion humans go about their
day-to-day lives  of feeling unbelievably lonely  and of hearing its own story told by others 
The Milky Way would like a chance to speak for itself. All one hundred billion stars and fifty
undecillion tons of gas of it. It all began some thirteen billion years ago  when clouds of gas
scattered through the universe's primordial plasma just could not keep their metaphorical hands
off each other. They succumbed to their gravitational attraction  and the galaxy we know as the
Milky Way was born. Since then  the galaxy has watched as dark energy pushed away its first
friends  as humans mythologized its name and purpose  and as galactic archaeologists have
worked to determine its true age (rude). The Milky Way has absorbed supermassive (an actual
technical term) black holes  made enemies of a few galactic neighbors  and mourned the deaths
of countless stars. Our home galaxy has even fallen in love. After all this time  the Milky Way
finally feels that it's amassed enough experience for the juicy tell-all we've all been waiting
for. Its fascinating autobiography recounts the history and future of the universe in
accessible but scientific detail  presenting a summary of human astronomical knowledge thus far
that is unquestionably out of this world. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND
SCIENCENET NAMED A BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2022 BY BOOKPAGE

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