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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The most powerful telescope ever built is rewriting everything we thought we knew about the universe.On 12 July 2022, NASA released five images that stopped the world. Thousands of galaxies captured in a patch of sky smaller than a grain of sand held at arm's length. A planetary atmosphere decoded in a single observation. A stellar nursery revealed in infrared light that had been hidden from every telescope that came before. The James Webb Space Telescope had opened its eye - and nothing in astronomy has been the same since.The Universe in New Light is the complete guide to what JWST is finding, why it matters, and what it means for our understanding of the cosmos. Written with the same clarity and wonder that has made Marcus Veylan one of the most trusted voices in popular space science, this book brings you to the frontier of human knowledge at the exact moment it is being remade.Inside this book: How JWST was designed, nearly cancelled, rebuilt, and finally launched on Christmas Day 2021 - and why it can see what Hubble never couldThe shocking discovery of massive, fully-formed galaxies in the universe's first few hundred million years - and why they challenge everything our models predictedThe first stars: what Population III stars were, why they were unlike anything that exists today, and how JWST is finding their traces for the first time in historyStellar nurseries reimagined - the Pillars of Creation as never seen before, the discovery of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects no one predicted, and what the birth of stars really looks like in infraredThe first detection of carbon dioxide on another world, the first photochemical signature in an exoplanet atmosphere, and the tantalising hint of a potential biosignature on a water world 120 light years awayTRAPPIST-1 - the seven-planet system that is JWST's most watched target, what the telescope has confirmed so far, and what a positive result would mean for life in the universeBlack holes caught feeding, merging, and recoiling - including the mysterious "Little Red Dots" that no model predictedDark matter, dark energy, and the Hubble tension - how JWST is closing in on the universe's deepest unsolved problemsWhat comes next: the questions JWST will spend its remaining twenty years answering - and why the most important discoveries may still lie aheadThe universe JWST is revealing is not the one astronomers expected. It is stranger, richer, older in some ways and younger in others - and we are only beginning to understand what it is telling us.The universe is not what we expected. This is what it actually is. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The universe does not build planets the way we imagined.Before 1995, our solar system was the only one we knew. Since then, astronomers have confirmed more than five thousand five hundred worlds beyond our Sun - and what they have found has overturned every assumption about what a planet can be.The Exoplanet Zoo is a guided tour of the most extraordinary worlds in that catalogue: the fifteen planets and classes of world that have most dramatically expanded our understanding of planetary science. From hellworlds being torn apart by their own stars, to worlds where glass rains sideways at hurricane speeds, to a real-life Tatooine orbiting two suns, to planets wandering starless through the darkness between the stars - each chapter reveals a world that is, in its own way, impossible to forget.WASP-12b - a planet being eaten alive by its star, its year lasting just 26 hoursHD 189733b - a deep blue world where silicate glass rains at 8,700 km/h55 Cancri e - a lava world whose surface is a global ocean of molten rockTrES-2b - the darkest known planet, reflecting less light than coalKepler-51b - a "cotton candy" world less dense than styrofoamTRAPPIST-1e - the most compelling candidate for life beyond our solar systemKepler-442b - the most Earth-like planet yet discoveredOumuamua - the mysterious interstellar visitor that broke all the rulesWritten with the same clarity and wonder that has made Marcus Veylan's Space Science Series beloved by readers worldwide, The Exoplanet Zoo is an essential guide to the universe's most astonishing real estate - and what it tells us about the greatest question science has ever asked. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every few hours, somewhere in the distant universe, a star dies in a way that releases more energy in a few seconds than the Sun will emit across its entire ten-billion-year lifetime. Not a supernova. Not a nuclear reaction in any ordinary sense. A gamma-ray burst - the most powerful explosion the cosmos is capable of producing, visible from across the observable universe, and for decades one of the deepest mysteries in all of astronomy. In The Violent Universe, Marcus Veylan tells the complete story of gamma-ray bursts: how they were discovered by accident by Cold War satellites designed to watch for nuclear weapons tests, what thirty years of confusion and fierce scientific debate revealed about their nature, and what the spectacular multi-messenger observations of the twenty-first century have confirmed about where they come from and what they mean. Long gamma-ray bursts are the deaths of massive stars - collapsing into black holes and firing twin jets of plasma outward at nearly the speed of light. Short gamma-ray bursts are something even stranger: the mergers of binary neutron stars, spiralling together for billions of years before colliding in a fraction of a second of catastrophic violence. That collision was detected in 2017 as both a gravitational wave and a gamma-ray burst simultaneously - one of the most scientifically productive single events in the history of astronomy. Inside this book: - The Cold War satellites that accidentally discovered the universe's most powerful explosions- The Great Debate of 1995 - near or cosmological? - and the single observation that settled it- The collapsar model: how a dying massive star powers a relativistic jet through sheer gravitational violence- GW170817 and GRB 170817A - the moment neutron star mergers were confirmed as gamma-ray burst engines- The kilonova that forged gold, platinum, and uranium in real time- Could a gamma-ray burst sterilise Earth? The science behind the Ordovician extinction hypothesis- The BOAT - GRB 221009A - the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, and what it revealed- The next generation of observatories hunting bursts at the edge of the observable universe The Violent Universe is popular science at the extreme frontier - honest, deep, and built for readers who want to understand the cosmos at its most astonishing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the early hours of 2 September 1859, telegraph offices across North America and Europe began sparking, catching fire, and shocking their operators. The cause was a storm - not on Earth, but on the Sun. A billion-tonne cloud of magnetised plasma had crossed 150 million kilometres of space in under eighteen hours and struck our planet's magnetic field with a force that has never been equalled in the modern record. The Carrington Event, as it became known, was a nine-day wonder in its time. In ours, it would be a civilisational emergency. The Invisible Storm tells the full story of the Sun's most dangerous side - the solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storms that have already knocked out power grids, destroyed satellites, blinded GPS systems, and exposed astronauts to life-threatening radiation. Drawing on the latest findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the unprecedented activity of Solar Cycle 25, Marcus Veylan explains the science of space weather from the inside out: how the Sun generates these storms, how they travel across space, how they interact with every piece of technology our civilisation depends on, and what scientists and engineers are doing to forecast and prepare for the next major event. The storm that struck Quebec in 1989 collapsed an entire provincial power grid in ninety seconds, leaving six million people without electricity. A near-miss in July 2012 - a Carrington-class event that missed Earth by nine days - passed almost unnoticed by the general public. The G5 geomagnetic storm of May 2024, the most severe in two decades, produced auroras visible from Florida and Spain while quietly stressing satellite constellations, GPS networks, and power infrastructure across the Northern Hemisphere. The next Carrington Event is not a question of whether. It is a question of when - and whether we will be ready. Authoritative, urgent, and compulsively readable, The Invisible Storm is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the greatest natural threat to modern civilisation that almost nobody is talking about. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The nearest world. The biggest question. In 2016, astronomers confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri - the closest star to our Sun, just 4.24 light years away. That planet, Proxima Centauri b, sits within its star's habitable zone, has roughly the mass of Earth, and may be the most important world ever discovered. In Proxima, science writer Marcus Veylan tells the complete story of this extraordinary world - what we know, what we suspect, and what the answer to the oldest question in science might mean for our place in the universe.What it means to orbit a violent red dwarf - and why that may not be fatal to lifeThe discovery that stunned the scientific community and captured the world's imaginationWhy tidal locking, stellar flares, and atmospheric loss are the three threats every nearby habitable world must surviveBreakthrough Starshot - the audacious plan to send a spacecraft to another star within our lifetimeHow the next generation of Earth-based telescopes may detect life on Proxima b without ever leaving our planetWhat it would mean - for science, for philosophy, for every human being - if the nearest world turned out to be inhabitedThe answer to the question of whether we are alone may lie at the nearest star. Proxima brings that question into focus - and makes the science behind it accessible, urgent, and impossible to put down. From the author of the Space Science Series, Alien Oceans, and The Feeling of Now. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Beneath the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa lies an ocean twice the size of all Earth's seas combined.On Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn, hundreds of geysers are actively spraying the contents of a hidden ocean directly into space. Right now. While you read this.We are not looking for little green men anymore.ALIEN OCEANS is the definitive guide to the most exciting scientific frontier of our time - the discovery that our solar system is teeming with liquid water, and that the conditions for life exist in places we never thought to look.Acclaimed science writer Marcus Veylan takes you on a journey through the hidden water worlds of the solar system and beyond, revealing: Why Europa's buried ocean - in permanent darkness, under miles of ice - may be the most habitable place beyond EarthHow Enceladus is already showing us its ocean chemistry through plumes we can fly through and analyse right nowWhat Titan's methane seas, rivers, and rain tell us about life using entirely different chemistryWhy the deep-sea vents of Earth's own oceans are our best model for what alien life might look likeThe missions already on their way - and the instruments being built to detect life in an ocean we cannot seeWhat finding microbial life beyond Earth would mean for science, philosophy, and our understanding of everythingDrawing on the latest discoveries from NASA's Europa Clipper, the Cassini mission's extraordinary Enceladus data, and the emerging field of ocean world astrobiology, ALIEN OCEANS is a book about the most important question the human species has ever asked.Are we alone?The answer may already be swimming in the dark. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On September 14, 2015, two black holes that had been spiralling together for over a billion years finally merged - and the ripple they sent through the fabric of spacetime arrived at a pair of detectors in Louisiana and Washington State. The signal lasted less than a fifth of a second. It was the most extraordinary thing humanity had ever detected.Ripples in Spacetime tells the complete story of gravitational waves: from Einstein's 1916 prediction and his own doubts about it, through Joseph Weber's false dawns and the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar's indirect proof, to the extraordinary engineering of LIGO and the moment the universe finally spoke.You'll discover: Why Einstein predicted gravitational waves - and then spent years trying to prove they didn't existHow LIGO measures a distance change one thousand times smaller than a protonWhat the chirp of GW150914 revealed about two black holes no one knew existedHow the neutron star merger of 2017 forged gold and settled a decades-long debateWhy the 2023 pulsar timing array detection opened an entirely new gravitational wave windowWhat LISA, the Einstein Telescope, and Cosmic Explorer will find nextThis is the story of a hundred-year scientific quest, a machine of almost impossible precision, and a universe far more violent - and far more audible - than anyone imagined.Ripples in Spacetime is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand one of the greatest scientific achievements of the modern era. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Right now, a galaxy of a trillion stars is falling toward us. Andromeda - the faint smudge visible on clear autumn nights - is approaching the Milky Way at 110 kilometres per second. For decades, astronomers called the collision inevitable: a first close encounter in roughly four billion years, a final merger billions of years after that, producing a new galaxy astronomers have already named Milkomeda. Then, in early 2025, a paper published in Nature Astronomy changed everything. When scientists properly included the gravitational influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way's trajectory, the probability of a direct merger dropped to approximately 50 percent. A coin flip. The collision that textbooks treated as certain may not happen at all. The Andromeda Collision tells the full story - what we know, what we've just discovered we don't know, and what will unfold either way. Drawing on the latest science including Gaia proper motion measurements, JWST observations of Andromeda's structure, and the 2025 Nature Astronomy findings, Marcus Veylan takes readers through the physics of galaxy collision from first principles: how dark matter halos drive the encounter, why colliding galaxies produce new stars instead of destroying them, what happens to the solar system, how the night sky will transform over billions of years, and what becomes of the two supermassive black holes - one 25 times more massive than our own - at the hearts of both galaxies. What you will find in this book: - The 2025 discovery that overturned a century of collision certainty- Why the stars won't collide even when the galaxies do- What the night sky will look like four billion years from now- The fate of Earth, the solar system, and the Milky Way's stars- The merger of two supermassive black holes and the gravitational waves it will produce- Milkomeda - the new galaxy that may emerge A landmark event in the history of our corner of the cosmos. Whether it happens or not, the science is extraordinary. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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