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 odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative style that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the centre of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars and of planets, and almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole-and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose how things work the way they do in the cosmos. Turn Right at Orion is a serious science book that reads like fiction.
- ISBN10 1299441483
- ISBN13 9781299441484
- Publish Date 1 January 2008 (first published 26 September 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books (AZ)
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 277
- Language English