Radio Universe, 9781529398991
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Radio Universe

How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    9 March 2026

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Summary

How do you explore distant stars, buried water on Mars or the first moments after the Big Bang - without leaving your back garden?

In The Radio Universe, award-winning astrophysicist Emma Chapman takes us on an electrifying voyage through the cosmos using one of the most powerful, yet overlooked, tools in science: the radio wave. With dazzling clarity and humour, Chapman reveals how these invisible messengers glide through space, bounce off planets, tunnel th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529398991
ISBN-10:1529398991
Author:Emma Chapman
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:9 March 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
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Critics Review

Astrophysicist Emma Chapman’s Radio Universe reveals how we use radio waves to explore the distant universe. Chapman follows one on a journey from Earth into the wider Milky Way, passing black holes and pulsars * New Scientist *

About The Author

Emma Chapman

Emma Chapman is an award-winning radio astronomer based at the University of Nottingham, and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellow. Her first book, First Light, was based on her groundbreaking research into the era of the first stars. She won the 2018 Royal Society Athena Prize for her work to end staff-student sexual harrassment in academia.

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