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When the Sky Falls tells the story of the global cultural history of shooting stars from the prehistoric to the present day, exploring beliefs, superstitions, and the relationship between humanity and meteors throughout time.
How do you explore distant stars, buried water on Mars or the first moments after the Big Bang – without leaving your back garden? In this book, astrophysicist Emma Chapman takes us on an electrifying voyage through the cosmos using one of the most powerful, yet overlooked, tools in science: the radio wave. With dazzling clarity and humour, Chapman reveals how these invisible messengers glide through space, bounce off planets, tunnel through clouds and slip past galactic dust – carrying secrets of the universe that no other kind of light can uncover.
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