Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos

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This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered as an alien "translators note" reveals sixty million years in earths future--the product of one mans 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 that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way witness the births and deaths of stars almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole--and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose the way things work in the cosmos. A powerful imaginative work that is thoroughly grounded both in history and in the latest in astrophysical thinking and observation Turn Right at Orion is serious science that reads like fiction.