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The Universe

The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox

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Length 8 hours 32 minutes
Language English
Narrators Brian Cox & Jot Davies

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Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.

We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and thatโ€™s barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on every planet in the Solar System. But amid all this vastness, the Milky Way Galaxy, our Sun and the Earth are home to the only known life in the Universe โ€“ at least for now.
With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox, and access to all the latest NASA mission information, Andrew Cohen takes readers on a voyage of discovery, via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding Universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all โ€“ how did it all begin? We now know more about those first moments of existence than we ever thought possible, and hidden in this story of how it all began are the clues to the fate of the Universe itself and everything in it.

Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Planets. He has been responsible for a wide range of science documentaries, including The Planets, the Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live. He lives in London with his wife and three children. Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of The Planets, the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live.

Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Planets. He has been responsible for a wide range of science documentaries, including The Planets, the Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live. He lives in London with his wife and three children. Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of The Planets, the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live.

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Reviews

โ€˜Wonderful in every senseโ€™ Guardian โ€˜I wish Brian Cox had been my physics teacherโ€™ The Times โ€˜Undeniably beautifulโ€™ Daily Mail โ€˜Engaging and elucidatingโ€™ Metro โ€˜[The Universe] looks spectacular and the science is mind-bogglingโ€™ Telegraph Praise for The Planets by Andrew Cohen and Professor Brian Cox: โ€˜So staggering you go whoa!โ€™ every few seconds โ€ฆ Cox is the Attenborough of the Solar Systemโ€™ Guardian โ€˜Spectacular. [Coxโ€™s] ability to convey maximum information in a clear and minimalist style is so softly winning and persuasiveโ€™ Sunday Times โ€˜Professor Brian Cox continues to boggle our mindsโ€™ Daily Mail โ€˜It was life affirming, it was perspective shifting. It was beautifully madeโ€™ Fearne Cotton, The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Radio 2 โ€˜Amazing workโ€™ Emma Barnett, Adrian Chiles, Radio 5 Live โ€˜Starry-eyed Brian Cox is the only man for this jobโ€™ The Times โ€˜Wowโ€™ Evening Standard โ€˜The professor makes us marvel at life on Earthโ€™ iNews โ€˜Excellent โ€ฆ a blend of enjoyable, accessible science and dreamlike wonderโ€™ The Times โ€˜Brian Cox breathes life into science again โ€ฆ breath-takingโ€™ Guardian โ€˜Fascinating โ€ฆ Good scienceโ€™ Observer โ€˜Extraordinary โ€“ at its best magically fascinating and full of vast, weird dramaโ€™ Radio Times Praise for Professor Brian Cox: โ€˜Coxโ€™s romantic, lyrical approach to astrophysics all adds up to an experience that feels less like homework and more like having a story told to you. A really good story, tooโ€™ Guardian โ€˜He bridges the gap between our childish sense of wonder and a rather more professional grasp of the scale of thingsโ€™ Independent โ€˜If you didnโ€™t utter a wow watching the TV, you will while reading the bookโ€™ The Times โ€˜Engaging, ambitious and creativeโ€™ Guardian Expand reviews
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