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religion 8, 80–1
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 122, 122, 123
Romer, Ole 37, 39, 41
Royal Observatory, Greenwich 12, 41
Ryle, Martin 177
S
S2 (star) 26, 195
Sagan, Carl 177, 241, 242
Sagittarius A* (black hole) 26, 149, 149, 195, 195
Schwarzschild metric 194–5
Schwarzschild, Karl 194
Scott, Commander Dave 145
Shepherd, Alan 142
Sirius (dog star) 100, 100
Sirius A (star) 230, 231, 231
Sirius B (star) 230, 231, 231
Skeleton Coast, Namibia 236–7, 239
sound barrier 42–3
Space Adaption Syndrome (space sickness) 142
Space Shuttle 142
Atlantis 11
Challenger 52
Endeavour 9, 50, 51
STS-31 (shuttle mission) 52, 53
STS-71 (shuttle mission) 11
STS-127 (shuttle mission) 11
spaceflight, human 8–9, 10–11, 138, 141–5, 142, 143, 144, 145
spacetime 43, 65, 66, 67, 189–90, 191, 193, 194–5
Special Theory of Relativity 43, 154, 185
speed of light 37, 38–43
spiral galaxies 25, 25, 28, 48, 49, 53, 55, 70, 169, 169
spiral nebulae 60, 70
Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA 133, 169
Standard Model of particle physics 12
stars 78–137
birth of 29–31, 84–5
black dwarf 129, 237, 239
dating 27
death of 30–1, 84, 122–3, 130–3, 141, 177, 179, 180–1, 227, 230, 231
destiny of 228–41
first 27, 118–19, 224, 225, 226, 227
life cycle of 128–9
main sequence 28, 128
mapping 82–3
neutron 84, 180, 181, 182, 194
nurseries 84–5
reading the history of 98–9
red dwarf 84, 89, 128, 234
red giant 69, 84, 120, 121, 128, 230, 232
role in/building block of our existence 8, 90–101
the last 234, 235
what are they made of? 98–9
white dwarf 128, 129, 181, 230, 233, 234, 235, 235
see also under individual star name
Stauch, August 216
steam engines 11, 214
Stelliferous Era 224–5, 229
Stephan’s Quintet (galaxy cluster) 61, 61
strong nuclear force 12, 106, 114, 115, 116, 140
STS-31 (shuttle mission) 52, 53
STS-71 (shuttle mission) 11
STS-127 (shuttle mission) 11
Sun 98, 164, 165
ancient measuring of movement 19
as a red giant 230, 232
death of 229, 229, 230, 232–3, 240
distance between outermost planet of our solar system and 26, 27
gravity 175
main sequence star 28
nuclear fusion 116–17
time it takes light to reach us 45
Venus transits 86–7, 87
white dwarf 230, 233
supernovas 12, 30, 31, 83, 84, 128–9, 131, 136–7, 180
Swift satellite, NASA 227
symmetry breaking 104–5, 106
T
Tanzania 46, 47, 48
Teller, Edward 115, 116
Terra satellite, NASA 146
Theia 161
thermodynamics 11
First Law of 214–15
Second Law of 215, 237, 240
Thirteen Towers of the temple, Chankillo, Peru 201–3, 201, 202, 203
time:
a very precious 240–1
ancient life and 208–9
ancient measuring of 201–3
arrow of 212–13, 219, 239, 240
clocks 209
controlling 210
cosmic clock 204–5
death of the sun 232–3
demise of our universe 230–1
destiny of stars and 228–41
galactic clock 206–7
glaciers and 210–11, 212–13
human measurement of 208–9, 210
life cycle of the universe 222–7
passage of 200
the beginning of the end 236–9
the last stars 234–5
time travel 44–65
Titov, Gherman 141, 142
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit 194
trilobites 73, 75
turtles 208, 208
U
UDF-y-38135539 (galaxy) 227
universe:
age of 8, 65
beauty of 8
birth of 8, 9, 65, 66–75 see also Big Bang
clock, cosmic 11, 39, 40–1
demise of 230–9
earliest possible photograph of 70–1
early 70–1, 102–3
expanding 64–5, 68
four forces of nature shape 140
heat death of 239
inflation 71, 106
life cycle of 222–7
our place in the 22–3
recombination 69
simplicity of 112–13
size of 8
timeline of 110–11
what are the building blocks of? 11
why is there a? 10
Ulam, Stanislaw 115, 116
up and down quarks 79, 106, 110, 114, 181, 182, 194
Uraniborg Observatory, near Copenhagen 41, 42
Ursa Major (constellation) 48
V
Vega (star) 100, 101, 231
Venus 87, 96–7, 174
Very Large Array (VLA), New Mexico, U.S. 168, 168
Very Large Telescope (VLT), Paranal Observatory, Chile 27, 120
Victoria Falls, Africa 56, 57, 56–7, 58, 58
Virgo Cluster 24, 148, 149
‘Vomit Comet’ 142, 144–5, 155, 189, 193
Vostock 1 141, 142
Vostock 2 142
Voyager 1 45, 240, 241
Voyager