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Welcome to the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott — An astrophysical tour from the planets to the Big Bang, based on a Princeton course for non-scientists.
Why it's on the list
The backbone of the astrophysics stage: stars, galaxies, cosmology and relativity, with enough numbers to do back-of-the-envelope calculations of your own. Pair it with the free OpenStax Astronomy textbook for anything you want to look up in more depth.
Big ideas, in my own words
Notes to come.
Questions it raised
Notes to come.