An Earthlings Guide to Outer Space, Bob McDonald
An Earthlings Guide to Outer Space, Bob McDonald
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An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Black Holes, Dwarf Planets, Aliens, and More

Author: Bob McDonald

Narrator: Bob McDonald

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

Beloved science commentator Bob McDonald takes us on a tour of our galaxy, unraveling the mysteries of the universe and helping us navigate our place among the stars.

How big is our galaxy? Is there life on those distant planets? Are we really made of star dust? And where do stars even come from?

In An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space, we finally have the answers to all those questions and more. With clarity, wisdom, and a great deal of enthusiasm, McDonald explores the curiosities of the big blue planet we call home as well as our galactic neighbors—from Martian caves to storm clouds on Jupiter to the nebulae at the far end of the universe.

So if you're pondering how to become an astronaut, or what dark matter really is, or how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, look no further. Through a captivating mix of stories and experiments, McDonald walks us through space exploration past and present, and reveals what we can look forward to in the future.

About Bob McDonald

Bob McDonald has been the host of CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks since 1992. He is a regular science commentator on CBC News Network and science correspondent for CBC TV's The National. He has been honored with the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from The Royal Canadian Institute; and the 2005 McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science from the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2011, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2014, an asteroid designated 2006XN67 was officially named BOBMCDONALD in his honor. Bob lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tracy on March 16, 2020

More a kids book than anything. I mostly already new quite a bit of the science in this. Quite a few fun experiments to do with a middle schooler interested in science. Might be fun to do while everyone is off due to the pandemic. It took me a while to read. I’ve been stress reading my news feed for......more

Goodreads review by Leah on August 27, 2021

Interesting and educational. I did not like the end of chapter activities, felt very kiddish but it's forgivable. This book skims the surface of everything from aliens, planets, milky way, black holes, the universe, speed of light, travelling in space, what space is like, what missions and satellite......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 28, 2020

Great for young people; a general collection of what we know so far about everything and more interestingly, what we don’t.......more

Goodreads review by Bruce Harpham on December 31, 2024

I know of the author from his longstanding role at the CBC and many years of work in science journalism. In "An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space," McDonald makes space science and related topics very accessible. The book is structured in a question and answer format. As a result, you can easily read......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 12, 2019

Great beginner's guide to outer space I enjoyed this book. Bob McDonald writes with a conversational tone`and greatly simplifies the science, so this is an excellent introduction to space exploration. McDonald covers a large amount of material but I never felt overloaded. While McDonald doesn’t cover......more

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