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IN THE TIME IT TAKES to read this sentence, the Earth will glide 200 miles in its orbit around the sun, the sun 3,000 miles of additional space will have opened up because our galaxy and those of the Hydra cluster as the universe goes on expanding.
IN THE TIME IT TAKES to read this sentence, the Earth will glide 200 miles in its orbit around the sun, the sun 3,000 miles of additional space will have opened up because our galaxy and those of the Hydra cluster as the universe goes on expanding.
About this book
For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red Limit is the tale of this discovery, its ramifications, and the passionately competitive astronomers who charted the past, present, and future of the cosmos.
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CosmologyExpanding universeAstronomyPopular worksNonfictionScience
First published 1977About the author
Timothy Ferris
29 August 1944
Timothy Ferris is a science writer and the best-selling author books, including *Coming of Age in the Milky Way* (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote *The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report* (1997), a popular science book on the study of the universe. - Wikipedia
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