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9780767905688

The Sky Is Not the Limit

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  • ISBN13:

    9780767905688

  • ISBN10:

    0767905687

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Broadway Books
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Summary

The author traces his journey from his childhood in the Bronx, where his love affair with the night sky began, to his career as the youngest director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium. Reprint.

Author Biography

Neil de Grasse Tyson was appointed the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1996, and also serves as a research scientist in the Department of Astrophysics at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. VII
Introductionp. 1
Night Vision: Building a relationship with the sky
The Early Yearsp. 3
The Middle Yearsp. 32
The Later Yearsp. 42
Scientific Adventures: The fun and frustrations of being a scientistp. 59
Dark Matters: A view from the dark side of spacep. 107
Romancing the Cosmos: For the love of the universep. 131
The End of the World: The science of catastrophep. 153
God and the Astronomers: A search for meaning in the cosmosp. 169
Space-Time Continuum: A chronicle of life's minutiaep. 185
Acknowledgmentsp. 193
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