The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries : ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1837731012
ISBN-13
9781837731015
Publisher
Icon Books
Imprint
Icon Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 14th, 2023
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
196 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Popular sciencePopular astronomy & space
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An offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts.Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a surreal place the Universe can be. In this light-hearted book she delves into some of the more arcane facts that her work has revealed, and tells us how we have actually managed to discover these amazing truths.Did you know: the galaxy is flatter than a credit card; supermassive black holes can sing a super-low B flat; it rains iron on a brown dwarf, and diamonds on Neptune; you could grow turnips on Mars if its soil weren''t full of rocket fuel; the Universe is beige, on average; Jupiter''s magnetic field will short-circuit your spacecraft - and, of course, the Milky Way smells of rum and raspberries.
An offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts. Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a surreal place the Universe can be. In this light-hearted book she delves into some of the more arcane facts that her work has revealed, and tells us how we have actually managed to discover these amazing truths. Did you know: the galaxy is flatter than a credit card; supermassive black holes can sing a super-low B flat; it rains iron on a brown dwarf, and diamonds on Neptune; you could grow turnips on Mars if its soil weren't full of rocket fuel; the Universe is beige, on average; Jupiter's magnetic field will short-circuit your spacecraft - and, of course, the Milky Way smells of rum and raspberries.
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