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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Popular works |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Begelman, Mitchell. Turn Right At Orion. New York : Basic Books, ©2008 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mitchell C Begelman |
ISBN: | 9780465012169 0465012167 |
OCLC Number: | 784885616 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) : map. |
Contents: | Introduction; Translator's Note; Prologue; Part I: Gravity; 1 To the Center of the Milky Way?; 2 En Route; 3 A Ballet; 4 Ground Zero; Part II: Motion; 5 The Cannibal; 6 Black Hole with a Mission; 7 SS 433; Part III: Equilibrium; 8 Shangri-La; 9 The Soft-Shell Crab; 10 Crab II; 11 Strange Light; 12 The Ends of Equilibrium; Part IV: Birth; 13 Orion; 14 By the Black Door; 15 Trapezium; 16 Points of Darkness, Shafts of Light; 17 The Dust Storm; 18 The Shepherd; 19 Finishing Touches; 20 Virgin Worlds; Part V: Evolution; 21 The Blob; 22 Divining the Interior; 23 Nuclear Alchemy. 24 The Dumbbell25 Leaving Home; 26 Outposts in the Halo; 27 The Explosion; 28 Aftermath; 29 Afterthoughts; Part VI: Hierarchy; 30 Really Leaving Home; 31 A City of Galaxies; 32 Brobdingnag; 33 Reprise; 34 On the Brink; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Index. |
Series Title: | Helix book. |
Responsibility: | Mitchell Begelman. |
Abstract:
"Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odys."
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