Stardust, Hubert Reeves

Star Dust traces, in a vast fresco in the colors of the sky and the earth, the history of our universe - our genealogy. From the initial chaos resulting from the Big Bang, the subtle interplay of the laws of nature produces a succession of ever more delicate and complex structures: particles, atoms, molecules, cells, living beings, then thinking beings. Modern science shows us the places where all these fruits of cosmic management ripen. Large telescopes observe the birth of stars within multicolored galactic clouds, their slow or cataclysmic death, which scatters into space the dust from which planets are made. The surprising variety of these planets and their satellites is revealed to us by space probes. Then, turning towards a blue planet, the third from the sun, our gaze plunges into the primitive ocean to witness, in the explosion of its forms, the emergence of life. Hubert Reeves has gathered, with the curiosity and independence of mind that made his reputation, the images of our family album, spanning ten billion years. This version of Star Dust is a new updated and augmented edition.