Turn Right At Orion

By: Mitchell Begelman

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Paperback | 26 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future -- the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far-distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars, almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole -- and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose the way things work in the cosmos. A powerful imaginative work that is thoroughly grounded both in history and in the latest in astrophysical thinking and observation, Turn Right at Orion is serious science that reads like fiction.

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics Astronomy, Space & Time Cosmology & The Universe Science in General

Introduction
Translator's Note	p. 3
Prologue	p. 9
Gravity
To the Center of the Milky Way?	p. 18
En Route	p. 23
A Ballet	p. 31
Ground Zero	p. 37
Motion
The Cannibal	p. 46
Black Hole with a Mission	p. 51
SS 433	p. 60
Equilibrium
Shangri-La	p. 73
The Soft-Shell Crab	p. 77
Crab II	p. 81
Strange Light	p. 86
The Ends of Equilibrium	p. 96
Birth
Orion	p. 106
By the Back Door	p. 109
Trapezium	p. 117
Points of Darkness, Shafts of Light	p. 124
The Dust Storm	p. 133
The Shepherd	p. 143
Finishing Touches	p. 149
Virgin Worlds	p. 153
Evolution
The Blob	p. 163
Divining the Interior	p. 169
Nuclear Alchemy	p. 173
The Dumbbell	p. 177
Leaving Home	p. 186
Outposts in the Halo	p. 192
The Explosion	p. 196
Aftermath	p. 203
Afterthoughts	p. 210
Hierarchy
Really Leaving Home	p. 217
A City of Galaxies	p. 223
Brobdingnag	p. 230
Reprise	p. 235
On the Brink	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Glossary	p. 249
Index	p. 255
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