The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales so long that it’s easy to dismiss them as being completely divorced from our everyday life. But here Marek Kukula shows you the myriad ways we are connected to the rest of the universe and how everything on Earthfrom the ground beneath our feet to the technology in our pocketshas origins in space. Kukula details how the desolate surface of the moon holds clues to Earth’s earliest life forms, what buried treasure in the Nile reveals about the watery past of Mars, and how the atoms of your own body were forged in the heart of a star.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2015
Publisher: Quercus
Pages: 376
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781786483706
ISBN 10: 178648370X