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(0)Caleb Scharf
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"We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lurk in the inner sanctum of almost every galaxy of stars in the universe. They're mysterious chasms so destructive and unforgiving that not even light can escape their deadly wrath. Recent research, however, has led to a cascade of new discoveries that have revealed an entirely different...
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One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer…" Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lurk in the inner sanctum of...
4) The zoomable universe: an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing
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2017.
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First edition.
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English
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2021.
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English
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"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data....
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[2017]
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Widescreen.
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For over a decade, NASA's Cassini space probe has been transmitting images of Saturn's rings and moons. This program presents Cassini's observations of Saturn's surface and chronicles the probe's final hours as it enters the planet's atmosphere.
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