A concise tour through modern astrophysics, from the Big Bang and the formation of matter through dark matter, dark energy, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the planets of the solar system, closing with reflections on humanity's cosmic perspective.
Books mentioned in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (1)
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: “physicist Murray Gell-Mann drew the name 'quark' from a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!'”