Death from the skies! : these are the ways the world will end-- /
Plait, Philip C.
Death from the skies! : these are the ways the world will end-- / Philip Plait. - New York : Viking Penguin, 2008. - 326 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Target Earth -- Sunburn -- The stellar fury of supernovae -- Cosmic blowtorches -- The bottomless pits of black holes -- Alien attack! -- The death of the sun -- Bright lights, big galaxy -- The end of everything.
It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?
9780670019977 0670019976
2008022943
End of the world (Astronomy)
QB638.8 / .P53 2008
520
Death from the skies! : these are the ways the world will end-- / Philip Plait. - New York : Viking Penguin, 2008. - 326 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Target Earth -- Sunburn -- The stellar fury of supernovae -- Cosmic blowtorches -- The bottomless pits of black holes -- Alien attack! -- The death of the sun -- Bright lights, big galaxy -- The end of everything.
It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?
9780670019977 0670019976
2008022943
End of the world (Astronomy)
QB638.8 / .P53 2008
520