Source: BBC Sky At Night {Main} Edition: Country: UK Date: Tuesday 1, September 2020 Page: 86,87 Area: 1040 sq. cm Circulation: Pub Stmt 17385 Monthly Ad data: page rate £1,475.00, scc rate £0.00 Phone: 0117 927 9009 Keyword: Is Einstein Still Right? Look Up: Our Story with the Stars Is Einstein Sarah Cruddas Still Right? The book begins with a summary of Harper Collins astronomy and flight before the Space Clifford M Will & Nicolas Yunes £16.99 • HB Race. There then follows a detailed account Oxford University Press How many people of that race to get the first person on the £16.99 • HB have been to Moon. From there, we learn about the space? What is unanticipated consequences of space After reading this the future of space exploration, the 'unexpected space age', great book, you'll travel? And why such as the first photo of Earth from space never forget the is it important that inspired the environmental movement three naked to continue to and the technological advances that shape physicists who travel and explore our everyday lives. Finally, Cruddas looks to came up with the the heavens? today, as private companies try to make idea for Gravity These and space tourism a reality. Probe B, the other questions At its best, this book is so full of NASA satellite are explored in Sarah Cruddas's optimism. The story of Apollo and that confirmed comprehensive history (and future) Challenger missions fills the reader with a Einstein's of space travel. sense of pride in the unity and possibility prediction of Cruddas is a space journalist, giving of the human spirit. It is hard not to feel a frame dragging - the slight warping of her unprecedented access to the people tinge of sadness at the narrower, more space by massive, rotating bodies like the involved in historical and current space conventional ambitions of today. That Earth. It's these kind of funny anecdotes travel. Her book puts human stories at said, Cruddas does her best to offer hope. that make Is Einstein Still Right? such a ••••• the centre. We hear not only about each great read. mission and the astronauts involved, Relativity guru Clifford Martin Will we also learn of those back on Earth, Emily Winterburn is a science and his younger colleague Nicolas Yunes in mission control and of the families historian and author of conclude that yes, Einstein's theory of left behind. The Stargazer's Guide general relativity is still right, but no, we can't be sure there won't be a better and more fundamental description of space, time and gravity around the corner. After Mars all, general relativity doesn't match with Stephen James O'Meara quantum physics, so scientists haven't Reaktion ExoMars, to how the newly developing found the final answer yet. £25 • HB internet first made modern Mars mission Starting with the detection of data accessible to a curious public, this gravitational redshift and the bending of Our love affair is a fascinating topic. starlight by the gravity of the Sun, Will with Mars is For readers investigating Mars for the and Yunes provide an entertaining deeply rooted in first time, the impressive collection of overview of the many tests that general history, dating glossy photographs taken by rovers and relativity has been put to over the past back to the orbiters will astonish, and may even make 100 years or so, introducing pulsars and MARS fifth and sixth you question if what you are seeing is black holes along the way. In fact, the millennia BC real. If you've ever wondered about life book contains a lot more interesting stuff when the on Mars or what Martian blueberries - and nice personal anecdotes - than the Sumerians look like, O'Meara will provide you with title suggests. believed that the answers. Looking to our future, he The last third is devoted to the search Mars was the god of plague and war. We explains how humans will journey to the for and detection of gravitational waves have been fascinated with its physical Red Planet, the risks involved and even over the past few years, and how future characteristics since Galileo observed the the ethical challenges we face. gravitational wave detectors (like the planet through a telescope in 1609 and Concluding the book with useful European Einstein Telescope and the Christiaan Huygens drew the first map of appendices, including a timetable of space-based LISA interferometer) may its surface in 1659. The opening chapters future oppositions for the next 15 years change our view of the cosmos again. of Mars span three centuries and provide (the next of which will occur this October), Here, too, the authors strike the perfect an interesting insight into these human Mars will appeal to historians, planetary balance between depth and accessibility, relationships and discoveries. O'Meara geologists and anyone with an interest using helpful metaphors wherever it then explores the Space Race and in space exploration, ikick~k*k is necessary. 'k'k'A'k'k travelling beyond the Moon, taking us on a journey of disappointment and joy as Katrin Raynor-Evans is an amateur Govert Schilling is an astronomy the two superpowers compete to reach astronomer and librarian for writer and the author of Ripples the Red Planet. 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