Dispatches from Planet 3

Leaves the reader with a renewed sense of wonder about our bizarre and vast cosmic habitat. -Steven Poole, Wall Street Journal The author ranges elsewhere from ringed planets to enormous clusters of galaxies, gravity waves and the big bang, and she properly emphasizes the contributions of some unjustly overlooked women astronomers, such as Jocelyn Bell, who did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize awarded for her team's work on neutron stars. The overall effect of the book is like binge-watching an excellent Netflix documentary series and leaves the reader with a renewed sense of wonder about our bizarre and vast cosmic habitat. -Steven Poole, Wall Street Journal This is a fascinating read, but also serves as a contemporary history of some of the most momentous insights of modern science. An excellent book to see us through those cloudy nights this winter! -Alastair Gunn, BBC Sky At Night (Book of the Month) Co-won the 2019 Science Communication Award, sponsored by The American Institute of Physics Dispatches from Planet 3 is on the longlist for the 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category Winner of the 2019 Epiphany awards' Science Awareness award, sponsored by the Novim Group In this tour of the universe through a mix of well-known and not-so-well-known stories, it's hard to stop and read just one. Fascinating and binge-worthy. --Adam Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2011 There is no better guide to the cosmos than Marcia Bartusiak. Here she offers a tour of the heavens that is refreshingly down-to-earth, revealing not only the mysteries of the universe but also the inspiring people who brought those secrets to light. -David Baron, author of American Eclipse An intriguing look at the sky from a top-class science journalist who has always been attuned to the most recent advancements of research. -Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics A fascinating compendium of essays on what scientists currently think the cosmos is like, and on the road to achieving those insights. Bartusiak takes the reader on a breathtaking journey from our familiar solar system to the speculative multiverse and from the beginning of time to the nature of time. -Mario Livio, author of Brilliant Blunders and Why?