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Biographical note
Multi-award-winning author, Professor Raman Prinja, is Head of Department for Astronomy at University College London. He is dedicated to the belief that it is hugely important to promote awareness of astronomy and physics to as wide an audience as possible, and especially to motivate and inspire the next generation of Universe explorers. As part of Professor Prinja's outreach, he has written several books on astronomy to share the excitement of the Universe with laypersons, parents, teachers and, above all, young people. Jan Bielecki is a Polish-Swedish illustrator and designer living in London. He mainly works with children's books and has illustrated fiction, picture books and non-fiction. Some of the topics he has covered include human anatomy, wrestling trolls, the scope of the Universe and slimy monsters.Experience the explosive and colourful future of the cosmos, zooming trillions of years ahead in time with Professor Raman Prinja, published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich.
The Future of the Universe starts the future clock NOW and rockets readers along a forward time line to discover what scientists predict will happen to the Universe, including a shiny new ring on Mars, Earth's axis flip and a dramatic galaxy crash!
This is the first book of its kind for this age - putting all the future events into one place along a clear timeline for readers 9 and up, from the return of famous comets in a few decades, to the dark end of the Universe a nonillion years from now.
Professor Raman Prinja is the international, multi-award-winning Head of Department for Physics and Astronomy at University College London and a celebrated children's author of many books, including Planetarium, Wonders of the Night Sky and Recipe for a Solar System.
Illustrator Jan Bielecki's action-packed, vivid artwork plucks these astonishing phenomena out of the distant future, and explodes them on the page - sizzling red giant stars and deep, mysterious dark energy; doomed moons and trailing comets - they're all inside The Future of the Universe!
Professor Prinja pens this unique look at the Universe's future, as seen on Sunday Brunch, as his follow-up to the definitive and exciting Wonders of the Night Sky, which introduces anyone with a patch of sky and a curious mind to exploring the marvels on display in today's Universe. The next generation of Universe explorers can easily engage with astronomy through these stunning books, no expensive equipment needed.
- 1: Foreword
- 2: Cosmic Timelines
- 3: A Great Journey into the Future
- 4: Jump to years 2061 & 4385 – Return of the Great Comets
- 5: +13,000 years – Earth's Wobble
- 6: +100,00 years – New Constellations in the Sky
- 7: +1 million years – The Explosion of Betelgeuse
- 8: +1.3 million years – A Bump with the Solar System
- 9: +50 million years – Mars Gets a Ring
- 10: +600 million years – The End of Solar Eclipses
- 11: +4.5 billion years – The Great Andromeda Collision
- 12: +5 billion years – A Red Giant Sun
- 13: +8 billion years – The Death of the Sun
- 14: +100 billion years – Gathering of Galaxies
- 15: +3 trillion years – Disappearing Universe
- 16: +10 trillion years – Last Stars Standing
- 17: +1 nonillion years – The Final Act of the Universe
- 18: Glossary
- 19: Further Information
- 20: Index