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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prologue: Astronomy at Large
Earth and Space
1. Restless Earth: The way of the world
2. The terminator: A user’s guide to nightfall
3. Starring citizen science: Research by the people
4. Catch a falling star: Meteors, meteorites and space dust
5. Radio silence: The quietest place in the world
6. The off-planet economy: Doing business in space
7. Moonstruck: Where did our satellite come from?
Planetary Explorations
8. Telescope troubles: Astronomers in court
9. Space bugs: Rules for planetary protection
10. Climate change: What happened to Mars?
11. Not our Planet B? Colonising Mars
12. Ringing in the changes: The vanishing rings of Saturn
13. Stormy weather: Weird worlds of the Saturnian system
14. Stalking an invisible planet: The search for Planet Nine
The Universe At Large
15. Nature’s barcode: A user’s guide to light
16. Reverberations: Exploding stars and light echoes
17. Signals from the unknown: The fast radio burst mystery
18. Eye of the storm: Black holes inside and out
19. Through gravity’s lens: The curious matter of dark matter
20. Ripples in space: Probing the birth of the Universe
21. Unrequited love: Is anyone there?
Acknowledgments
Index
Color Illustrations
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