Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott Groundswell Speaker 2024 ScholasticISBN: 9781509893942Extent: 24 pages

ScholasticISBN: 9781509893942Extent: 24 pages

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Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott Groundswell Speaker 2024 ScholasticISBN: 9781509893942Extent: 24 pagesThe BBC presenter of 'Sky at Night', and Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Chris Lintott, takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents, big characters, and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years. Our first views of the earliest galaxies were brought to us by the Hubble Space Telescope when it was pointed at absolutely nothing. The ice covered Enceladus, one of Saturn's nearly one