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Introduction

The Universe

Chapter 1

Messengers

The Story of Light

Our place in the Universe

Our galactic neighbourhood

Mapping the Milky Way Galaxy

The shape of our galaxy

A star is born

What is Light?

Young’s double-slit experiment

Messengers from across the ocean of space

Chasing the speed of light

The search for a cosmic clock

Speed limits

Time Travel

To the dawn of time

Finding Andromeda

The Hubble Telescope

Hubble’s most important image

All the colours of the rainbow

Hubble expansion

Redshift

The Birth of the Universe

Visible light

Picturing the past

First sight

Chapter 2

Stardust

The Origins of Being

The cycle of life

Mapping the night sky

Stellar nurseries

How to find exoplanets

The orgins of life

The Periodic Table

The universal chemistry set

What are stars made of?

The Early Universe

El Tatio Geysers, Chile

The Big Bang

Sub-atomic particles

Timeline of the Universe: The Big Bang to the present

Matter by numbers

The most powerful explosion on Earth

From Big Bang to Sunshine: The First Stars

Red giant

Star death

Planetary nebulae

The rarest of all

Supernova: life cycle of a star

The beginning and the end

The orgin of life

Chapter 3

Falling

Full Force

The invisible string

The apple that never fell

The grand sculpture

The geoid

The Tug of the Moon

The false dawn

The Blue Marble

Galactic cannibals

Collision course

When galaxies collide

Feeling the Force

The gravity paradox

The land of little green men

What is gravity?

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

Into the darkness

The anatomy of a black hole

Chapter 4

Destiny

The Passage of Time

The cosmic clock

The galactic clock

Ancient life

The arrow of time

The order of disorder

Entropy in action

The life cycle of the Universe

The life of the Universe

The Destiny of Stars

The demise of our universe

The death of the Sun

The last stars

The beginning of the end

A very precious time

Searchable Terms

Picture credits

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Credits

About the Publisher