The grand cosmic story
an illustrated timeline 138 billion years and beyond
The grand cosmic story
an illustrated timeline 138 billion years and beyond
Book - 2025
Witness the unfolding history of the universe as you turn each page of The Grand Cosmic Story, a brilliant and beautiful volume sure to fascinate anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Custom illustrations created by two legendary space artists accompany detailed, accessible descriptions of the evolving cosmos as atoms, stars, galaxies, black holes, planets, life itself emerge. Fungi, flowers, dinosaurs, apes, humans appear on Earth, paralleled by changes in the vast realms of space surrounding--all narrated and visualized, step by step.
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| Язык: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic Partners,
2025.
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| Редактирование: | First National Geographic edition. |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Encyclopaedia cosmologica |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The grand cosmic story : |b an illustrated timeline 13.8 billion years and beyond / |c Ethan Siegel, Mark A. Garlick, Jon Lomberg, William Lidwell. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Illustrated timeline 13.8 billion years and beyond |
| 250 | |a First National Geographic edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b National Geographic Partners, |c 2025. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2024 | |
| 300 | |a 317 pages : |b color illustrations ; |c 31 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index and glossary. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in 2024 as Encyclopaedia Cosmologica. First National Geographic edition 2025." | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- About this Book -- Data Table -- Before the Beginning -- The Beginning -- Candles in the Darkness -- Stars Dance with Stars -- Here Be Dragons -- A Bleak, Unkindly Fog -- Let There Be Light -- Between Dragons and their Wrath -- The Seeds of Complexity -- The Backbone of Night -- Rise of the Genesis Planets -- The Building Blocks Assemble -- Life, Life Everywhere -- Death, Death Everywhere -- Lanterns of the Night Alight -- Galaxies Devour Galaxies -- The Dens of Dragons -- Rise of the Replicators -- Clouds Collapse and Stars Swarm -- Candles that Burn Twice as Bright -- The Dying of a Generation - | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Rise of the Rocky Worlds -- The Birth of Terra Prima -- Relics of the Early Universe -- Life Is But a Walking Shadow -- And Yet, Life Finds a Way -- The Tie that Binds -- Bound Upon Wheels of Fire -- Clash of the Titans -- There Can Be Only One -- A Diversity of Galaxies -- 100 Quintillion Points of Light -- Breathing Life Into Worlds -- Many Torrents Become One -- Candles that Burn Half as Bright -- Second-Chance Supernovae -- Dragons Feast and Spit Fire -- The First Complex Life -- Terra Prima Terraformed -- All That's Best of Dark and Bright -- Through the Looking Glass - | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Rocky Roads to Living Worlds -- Not All Who Wander Are Lost -- Greyhounds of the Skies -- The Pirouettes of Galaxies -- No Stars, No Masters -- Rise of the Technium -- The Big Get Bigger -- Creative Destruction -- Beware the Calm Surface -- Vive La Différence -- Frightful Bursts of Fireworks -- Encyclopaedia [sic] of Galactica -- Let Sleeping Comets Lie -- Giants Among Giants -- Stellar Companions -- First Contact -- Native Life, Alien Origins -- My Name Is Ozymandias -- The Force Doth Awaken -- Great Walls of Galaxies -- Beacons of Light and Hope -- Unseen, but not Unfelt -- A Cataclysm of Fire and Light -- Diversity is Nature's Way - | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Climbing Mount Improbable -- Thieves in the Night -- Awakening a Red Giant -- Elegy for a Stellar Age -- A Mars by any other Name -- Shelter Among the Clouds -- The Many Shades of Rain -- Floating Islands of Life -- The Lives of Red Dwarfs -- The Birth of El Gordo -- Stellar Synchrotrons -- An Unkindly Doppelganger -- A Darkness Unforgiving -- Dark Energy Dominates -- The Danse Macabre I -- Nature's Timekeepers -- Cosmic Collaborators -- The Cannibal Next Door -- Within Sight, Out of Reach -- The Crucible of Cosmic Rays -- Goldilocks Stars -- When Gods Divide by Zero -- Now I Am Become Death -- In the Manner of Spaghetti -- Snapshots in Time -- Cooking Up Solar Storms -- Here Comes the Sun -- Dance of the Planets -- Beneath a Star-filled Sky - | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The Diminution of Mercury -- Born of Violence -- Points of No Return -- No Blue, No Green -- Reaching for the Moon -- Earth Comes to Life -- The Form of Things Unknown -- Strangers in a Strange Land -- Behold, Vaalbara -- Harvesters of Light -- Venusian Greenhouse -- The Cloven Shield of Mars -- The Danse Macabre II -- Seas of Tranquility -- Requiem for Martians -- Dyson Structures -- Unfathomable Conditions -- Rise of the Cyanobacteria -- Behold, Olympus Mons -- There Is a World Elsewhere -- The Great Oxygenation Event -- Rings of Destruction -- Three-Body Problems -- The Engine of Diversification -- The Loudest of All Signals -- The Brightest of All Lights -- Rise of the Eukaryotes -- Wanderers of the Night -- Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow -- Powerhouse of the Cell - | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Two Dragons Become One -- Rise of the Fungi -- The Changing Face of Venus -- A Surprise of Starbursts -- Rise of the Plants -- The Greening of Earth -- Winter is Coming -- Snowball Earth -- Biological Big Bang -- Oceans Teem with Life -- Rise of the Trees -- The Great Dying -- Rise of the Flowers -- The Long Now -- The Short Tomorrow (years into the future) -- The Long Tomorrow -- The Longest Tomorrow -- The End -- After the End -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Authors. | |
| 520 | |a Witness the unfolding history of the universe as you turn each page of The Grand Cosmic Story, a brilliant and beautiful volume sure to fascinate anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Custom illustrations created by two legendary space artists accompany detailed, accessible descriptions of the evolving cosmos as atoms, stars, galaxies, black holes, planets, life itself emerge. Fungi, flowers, dinosaurs, apes, humans appear on Earth, paralleled by changes in the vast realms of space surrounding--all narrated and visualized, step by step. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Universe |v Popular works. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Lidwell, William, |e author. | |
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