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| Author | Spain Pablo Ortega |
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| Category | Space and astronomy / Introduction to science / Introduction to physics |
| Language of the book | English |
| Published | October 28, 2026 |
| Length | 222 pages |
| Product number | TB-W0004-EN |
| Reading time | About 3 h 30 min (at 230 words a minute) |
| Print-ready PDF | A5 · interior PDF and cover PDF (with 3 mm bleed) · 222 pages |
CategoriesLearning and general knowledgeSpace and astronomy
CategoriesLearning and general knowledgeIntroduction to science
CategoriesLearning and general knowledgeIntroduction to physics
At the end of a long working day, an astronaut looks out of a space station window at the stars and wonders how it all began. Over fifteen nights, Fifteen Nights Above the Earth tells that story gently, one evening at a time: from the hot, dense beginning about 13.8 billion years ago to the first stars, the galaxies, the elements in your body and the birth of the Sun and Earth.
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The story of how the universe began, told gently, one night at a time.
Each chapter is one night. It begins with a working day of Noor, an astronaut on a six-month stay high above the Earth: two hours on a treadmill with straps, a cargo ship caught with a robotic arm, a noise on a radio link, a practice drill, a quiet night watch. Something in her day leads to a question, and the question leads to the night's story: light as a messenger from the past, galaxies moving apart, the oldest light in the sky, the first minutes, the first stars, how galaxies grew, how stars made the atoms of our bodies, and the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Along the way, the book tells briefly how people found these things out, often while they were simply doing their jobs. Every chapter ends with a few common misunderstandings about the universe or about life in space, explained kindly and clearly, and the book says plainly what is still unknown.
Written in calm, plain language for working adults with no science background, each chapter takes about twenty minutes to read.
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