With roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, the cosmos is simply too vast for an unabridged tell-all. But here €™s the next best thing: 100 stars €”bright and faint, near and far, famous and obscure, long dead and as-yet unborn, red, yellow, blue, and white (but, as you €™ll learn, never green) €”handpicked by astronomer Florian Freistetter because they have the very best stories to tell:
- GRB 080319B, the farthest we €™ve seen into space with the naked eye
- Gamma Draconis, the star that proved Earth rotates on its axis
- V1364 CYGNI, pivotal in the discovery of dark matter
- 72 Tauri, definitive evidence for Einstein €™s theory of relativity
- V1, which revealed horizons beyond the Milky Way
- Algol, called the Demon Star for its mysterious blinking €”and many more!
Freistetter €™s short, easy-to-read profiles not only invite you to gaze into the past and future of the universe, they introduce a stellar cast of scientists who came before: from Annie Jump Cannon, who revolutionized how we classify the stars, to Dorrit Hoffleit, who first counted them. Enjoy your journey through the cosmos. . . .
Author: Florian Freistetter
Publisher: The Experiment
Publishing Date; Aug, 2021
Hardcover: 304 pages
