内容简介
假如银河系会说话，它会向我们怎样诉说自己的身世？作者用自传的方式，让银河系作为“银河系自己”，讲述自己的前世今生。第一章和第二章，讲述了银河系的基本情况和不同国家和地区关于银河系和夜空的神话故事；第三章到第十章，讲述了大爆炸、银河系暴胀期、银河系中心Z大黑洞以及银河系和其他邻近星系的发现过程和科学假说等。第十一章到第十四章，本书的视角便从银河系内部转向了更为广阔的宇宙，讲述了仙女座等邻近星系和银河系在千万年间相互的物理作用、银河系的消亡和当代天体物理学界对银河系演变过程所做的科学预判。第十五章探讨了暗物质、地外生命等问题，并借用银河系之口，撩动读者对宇宙的广泛好奇心。
作者简介
莫伊亚·麦克提尔（Moiya McTier），天体物理学家，民俗学家，科普工作者。本科毕业于哈佛大学，是哈佛校史上第一位获天文学和神话学双学位的学生。后在哥伦比亚大学攻读天体物理学博士学位，成为该校天文系毕业的第一位黑人女性。
作为美国国家自然科学基金会的研究员，她目前的主要研究方向为银河系的运动对其周围行星形成的影响。她演讲上百场，撰写科学文章数篇，还为迪士尼等企业担任虚拟世界设定方面的顾问。曾接受各种节目和播客的采访，浏览收听量超过100万次。
Content introduction
If the Milky Way could talk, what would it tell us about its life? The author uses the way of autobiography to let the Milky Way as "the Milky Way itself", telling its own past and present life. The first and second chapters tell the basic situation of the Milky Way and the mythological stories of different countries and regions about the Milky Way and the night sky; Chapters 3 through 10 cover the Big Bang, galactic inflation, the Z black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and the discovery and scientific hypotheses of the Milky Way and other neighboring galaxies. In chapters 11 through 14, the perspective of the book shifts from the interior of the Milky Way to the wider universe, describing the physical interactions of neighboring galaxies such as Andromeda and the Milky Way over tens of thousands of years, the demise of the Milky Way, and the scientific predictions made by the contemporary astrophysics community about the evolution of the Milky Way. Chapter 15 explores issues such as dark matter and extraterrestrial life, and evokes readers' broader curiosity about the universe through the lens of the Milky Way.
About the author
Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, folklographer, and science popularist. He graduated from Harvard University and was the first student in Harvard history to receive a double major in astronomy and mythology. She later earned a doctorate in astrophysics at Columbia University, where she became the first black woman to graduate from the astronomy department.
As a research fellow at the National Science Foundation, her current research focuses on the influence of the motion of the Milky Way galaxy on the formation of planets around it. She has given hundreds of lectures, written several scientific articles, and consulted on virtual world Settings for companies such as Disney. He has been interviewed on various shows and podcasts and has been viewed and listened to more than 1 million times.
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