Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. A Note to the Reader vii
4. 1 Size and Scale of the Universe 1
5. 2 Pluto’s Place in the Solar System 16
6. 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars 33
7. 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy 69
8. 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole 98
9. 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang 113
10. 7 Inflation and the Multiverse 150
11. 8 Our Future in the Universe 192
12. Acknowledgments 219
13. Index 221