The Sky Is Not the Limit

by TYSON, NEIL DEGRASSE

• ISBN13: 9781591021889
• ISBN10: 159102188X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

This is the absorbing story of Neil de Grasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a young man who at one time was both nerd and jock, Tyson's memoir could well inspire other similarly curious youngsters to pursue their dreams.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Acknowledgments	11	(4)
Introduction	15	(2)
Night Vision	17	(46)
Building a relationship with the sky
The Early Years	17	(29)
The Middle Years	46	(9)
The Later Years	55	(8)
Space, the Final Frontier	63	(26)
The fun and frustrations of living in a spacefaring nation
Scientific Adventures	89	(40)
The fun and frustrations of being a scientist
Dark Matters	129	(20)
A view from the dark side of space
Romancing the Cosmos	149	(18)
For the love of the universe
The End of the World	167	(14)
The science of catastrophe
God and the Astronomers	181	(10)
A search for meaning in the cosmos
Index	191