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In this, the latest volume in the best selling 50 Ideas series, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of the universe for a general readership.

From Heliocentrism to dark matter, and from Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and orbits to Olber’s paradox and the Shapley-Curtis debate, she explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.

• Planets and solar system
• Cosmic microwave background
• Supermassive black holes
• Heliocentrism
• Big bang nucleosynthesis
• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Kepler’s laws
• General relativity
• Gravitational lensing
• Galileo
• Special relativity
• Stars: types
• Newton’s laws of motion
• Black holes
• Stars: births of stars
• Gravitation
• String theory
• Stars: deaths of stars
• Spectrum
• Astroparticle physics
• Stars: life cycles
• Milky Way
• Cosmic rays
• The sun: fusion and sunspots
• Doppler shift and redshift
• Higgs boson Pulsars
• Shapley-Curtis debate
• Anthropic principle
• Cepheids and variable stars
• Olbers paradox
• Hubble
• sequence of galaxy types
• Gamma ray bursts
• Hubble’s law
• Dark matter
• Exoplanets
• Cosmic distance ladder
• Large scale structure
• Theories of creation
• Big bang
• Galaxy clusters and voids
• Earth-moon giant impact theory
• Cosmic inflation
• X-ray background
• Astrobiology
• Dark energy
• Radio galaxies
• Fermi paradox
• Matter and antimatter
• Quasars and active galactic nuclei

Joanne Baker is the author of Quercus’ best selling science title 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know. She studied Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is Books & Arts editor at Nature magazine.