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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sandra Martha Dolinsky and others

  • 209 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 15 editions
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1 About this book

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number of basic questions about the universe. Published on May 2, 2017, by W. W. Norton & Company, the book is a collection of Tyson's essays that appeared in Natural History magazine at various times from 1997 to 2007.

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Good for readers who want: science and astronomy.

  • Astrophysics
  • Science
  • Cosmology
  • Universe
  • Space and time

2 About Neil deGrasse Tyson

Born 1958

Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: də-GRASS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer.

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