[An] entertaining romp ...
Did you know: the galaxy is flatter than a sheet of paper; supermassive black holes can sing a super-low B flat; it rains iron on a brown dwarf, and diamonds on Neptune; you could grow turnips on Mars if its soil weren\'t full of rocket fuel; the Universe is beige, on average
Jupiter\'s magnetic field will short-circuit your spacecraft - and, of course, the Milky Way Smells of rum and raspberries..
In this light-hearted book she delves into some of the more arcane Facts that her work has revealed, and tells us how we have actually managed to discover these Amazing truths.
Astrophysicist Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a surreal place the Universe can be.
Publishers Weekly From a brilliant young female professor at Oberlin College, Ohio, comes a quirky guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts.
Armchair astronomers will come away with a renewed sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe.
Scudder has a knack for homing in on bizarre Cosmic phenomena ...explained in accessible prose. [An] entertaining romp ..
