How It Ends: From You to the Universe

by Chris Impey

Book Overview

Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. But few among us know what science, with the help of insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about death on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, biosphere, earth, sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393069850
• ISBN13: 9780393069853
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"