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Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott — WisdomDeck honest review

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Welcome to the Universe

by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott

The Princeton course for non-majors in book form: stars, galaxies, relativity, cosmology, with some math. The serious popular astronomy text.

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you want a real course, not a tour.

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you fear equations.

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Three things you will actually use

Learn the actual physics.
Do the problems.
Earn the wonder.

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The Princeton course.

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