Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes more massive than a billion suns. Huge advances in scientific understanding mean that for the first time we can explore places we didn't even know existed just ten years ago. This new book charts that explorative journey.
*Published to coincide with the BBC series presented by Professor Brian Cox, this books will have a foreword from Cox and will be fully illustrated in color throughout.
Author Biography
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research
fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on
one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the
Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a
science broadcaster and presenter of the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, Human
Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live. Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC
Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Planets. He has been
responsible for a wide range of science documentaries, including the Wonders
trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live. He lives in
London with his wife and three children.
