ASTRONOMY FOR BEGINNERS (HB)

What are stars made of, and how do they blaze into life? How does a black hole work? Is there alien life, somewhere in the universe? These are the kinds of questions that astronomers spend their days (and nights) trying to answer. This book goes beyond the basics to explore some seriously cool and mysterious ideas, from gravity to the origin of the universe to the problem of warping through spacetime. Find out what astronomers and cosmologists have discovered so far, how they figured it out, and the problems they're still puzzling over.