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Wat is ruimte, wat is tijd? Hoe groot en oud is het universum? Hoe passen wij binnen dit universum? En hoe zit het universum weer in ons? En wat zijn precies die mysterieuze donkere materie en energie? Er is geen betere gids voor deze geestverruimende vragen dan bestsellerauteur en Amerika's beroemdste astrofysicus Neil deGrasse Tyson. 

Tegenwoordig hebben we maar weinig tijd om over de kosmos na te denken. In dit boek brengt Tyson het universum in hapklare brokken naar de aarde. Terwijl je 's ochtends je koffie zet, in de trein of metro zit, voert Tyson je moeiteloos mee op een verrukkelijke reis door het heelal: van de Big Bang naar exploderende sterren, van quarks tot clusters van sterrenstelsels, en van de zoektocht naar planeten tot het kosmisch perspectief.

Astrophysics --- sterrenstelsels --- theoretische sterrenkunde --- tijd --- ruimte (astronomie) --- heelal --- astronomie

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When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "surfing the gravitational field." Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Moon. The successful rescue represented the first application of chaos to space travel and ushered in an emerging new field. Part memoir, part scientific adventure story, Fly Me to the Moon gives a gripping insider's account of that mission and of Belbruno's personal struggles with the science establishment. Along the way, Belbruno introduces readers to recent breathtaking advances in American space exploration. He discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents new research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313 (now named Eris), a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system--and much more. Grounded in Belbruno's own rigorous theoretical research but written for a general audience, Fly Me to the Moon is for anybody who has ever felt moved by the spirit of discovery.

Gravity assist (Astrodynamics) --- Celestial mechanics --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Many-body problem --- n-body problem --- Problem of many bodies --- Problem of n-bodies --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Gravitational astronomy --- Mechanics, Celestial --- Astrophysics --- Mechanics --- Low energy transfers (Astrodynamics) --- Swingby technique (Astrodynamics) --- Orbital transfer (Space flight) --- Outer space --- Exploration