Astronomy History

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    • By: Les Johnson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • A Traveler's Guide to the Stars is your passport to the next great frontier of human discovery, providing a rare inside look at the remarkable breakthroughs in science and technology that will help tomorrow's space travelers chart a course for the stars....

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    • The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes....

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    • A Personal Voyage
    • By: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,590 ratings
    • Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....

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    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38,213 ratings
    • How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Hoskin
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-19th century....

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    • Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    • By: Brian Greene
    • Narrated by: Erik Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,006 ratings
    • In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions....

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    • By: Brian Greene
    • Narrated by: Brian Greene
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • From renowned physicist and New York Times best-selling author Brian Greene comes the remarkable human quest to grasp how the universe came to be.

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    • Explanations That Transform the World
    • By: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 08-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744 ratings
    • A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

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    • The Special and the General Theory
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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    • And Other Cosmic Quandaries
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,215 ratings
    • Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for explaining the mysteries of space with stunning clarity. This collection of his essays from Natural History magazine explores a myriad of cosmic topics....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Part scholarship and part yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time - from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail - this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths and the discovery of secret mysteries....

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    • How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Dava Sobel returns with the story of a group of women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102 ratings
    • In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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