Una historia del universo en 100 estrellas

From mythology to science fiction, from the star of Bethlehem to the Gaia mission, Florian Freistetter tells the story of the universe through a hundred stars. Some are brilliant and for thousands of years they have been part of the stories about the origin of the world; some reveal galactic collisions while others are explored for interstellar missions; a few show us the birth of the universe and others reveal what its future will be like. The hundred chapters that weave this book allow us to understand and admire the firmament, as well as to meet those who made its study possible, from personalities such as Isaac Newton or James Bradley to astronomers that hardly anyone remembers, such as Dorrit Hoffleit, Henrietta Swan Leavitt or Cecilia Payne , to which we owe such important findings as the number of stars visible in the celestial vault, the calculation of distances in the universe and the main components of stars.