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From the speed of light to moving mountains - and everything in between - Zoom reveals the universe's never-ending journey

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Looking at the night sky, you¿d be forgiven for thinking it¿s all quiet up there in space. But you¿d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Be...

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady, predictable fashion. But when cosmic violence does u...

The author of "Zoom: How Everything Moves" traces the history of forms of invisible light, including infrared, gamma rays, radio waves and many more, from their 19th century discovery to their function in the world today.

Il Novecento è stato il secolo della fisica. Le scoperte sull'atomo, le sue particelle e l'architettura del cosmo hanno prodotto la nostra concezione di universo e tutta la tecnologia che plasma la vita quotidiana. Eppure, proprio la fisica non è stata capace, e non lo è ancora, di rispondere alle antichissime domande dell'uomo, invocando come risolutiva quella teoria del tutto che ha a lungo inseguito e mai raggiunto. Che cosa c'era prima del...

From the speed of light to moving mountains-and everything in between-ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents still waft around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you sit on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound.

Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, "The Sun's Heartbeat" is a robust narrative that explores the sun's birth, its life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, and its spectacular future death.

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How much do you know about the radiation all around you? Your electronic devices swarm with it, the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill you, but without it you wouldn't...

Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, THE SUN'S HEARTBEAT is a robust narrative that explores the sun's birth, its life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, and its spectacular future death. Did you know that scientists are beginning to think that the sun is safer than sunscreen? That whenever we see the sun on the horizon, it's actually a phantom image because the sun has already set? That career pilots ...

From blue moons to Betelgeuse, it's all in this witty, fact-packed, profusely illustrated guide to the heavens by the author of Discover magazine's popular "Night Watchman" column.