Reading List: astronomy

Whenever I hear about Neil deGrasse Tyson, I immediately think of Carl Sagan. And yet the two differ greatly, at least in public. Both are – or were – great science communicators. But each of them is also a product of his time. I always saw Carl Sagan as the calm, quiet scholar with an uncanny gift for explaining thing

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If astrophysics weren’t – as the name suggests – part of physics, and therefore full of formulas with letters and strange symbols, this science would have a clear advantage over the study of history. While in history you have to piece the truth together from many subjective and few objective data points, astrophysics –

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