astronomy deep dive

stillfrombrooklyn Host

4 participants (25 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

There’s reading broadly and hyperfixating, and this is for hyperfixating on space.

Challenge Books

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A Field Guide to the Planets by Sabine Stanley

A Field Guide to the Planets

Sabine Stanley

12 hours, 25 minutes • audio

nonfiction mathematics science
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong by Becky Smethurst

A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong

Becky Smethurst

7 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction history science adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Envisioning Exoplanets: Searching for Life in the Galaxy by Michael Carroll

Envisioning Exoplanets: Searching for Life in the Galaxy

Michael Carroll

224 pages • hardcover • 2020

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

10 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction history race science informative inspiring slow-paced
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Lisa Kaltenegger

8 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Mike Brown

7 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction memoir science funny informative medium-paced
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

3 hours, 43 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction science informative fast-paced
Cosmos: Possible Worlds by Ann Druyan

Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Ann Druyan

10 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction science informative fast-paced
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

6 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction science informative medium-paced