First published 2022
Neil deGrasse Tyson presents a visual expedition across the cosmos using stereoscopic technology. The book includes a foldable stereo viewer built into the cover that transforms color images into three-dimensional views of celestial objects. Tyson traces how human understanding evolved from seeing the sky as a flat dome to grasping our place in an expanding universe. Readers travel from the Moon across the solar system to exoplanets, nebulas, and galaxy clusters before reaching the cosmic microwave background radiation. The journey spans distances from 1.3 light-seconds to 13.8 billion light-years. Tyson explains the science behind each spectacular sight and describes how these 3D images were created using the same methods early astronomers developed to measure cosmic distances. This technique extends human vision to the universe's farthest boundaries.
Genres: science, non-fiction, astronomy, academic
Vibes: educational, informative, thought-provoking
Tropes: educational, informative
208 pages · Hardcover · Princeton University Press