The Sky Is Not the Limit

This is the absorbing story of Neil de Grasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a young man who at one time was both nerd and jock, Tyson's memoir could well inspire other similarly curious youngsters to pursue their dreams.

Preface

9

(2)

Acknowledgments

11

(4)

Introduction

15

(2)

Night Vision

17

(46)

Building a relationship with the sky

The Early Years

17

(29)

The Middle Years

46

(9)

The Later Years

55

(8)

Space, the Final Frontier

63

(26)

The fun and frustrations of living in a spacefaring nation

Scientific Adventures

89

(40)

The fun and frustrations of being a scientist

Dark Matters

129

(20)

A view from the dark side of space

Romancing the Cosmos

149

(18)

For the love of the universe

The End of the World

167

(14)

The science of catastrophe

God and the Astronomers

181

(10)

A search for meaning in the cosmos

Index

191

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The Sky Is Not the Limit

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