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    Feb 17, 2022 4 minutes

    The Universe: A Biography

    Paul Murdin

    Thames and Hudson £25 • HB

    Tackling the life story of the entire Universe is a fairly daunting prospect, for the prospective author (and, potentially, for the reader), but Paul Murdin’s marvellous new book pulls it off in style.

    With some 13.8 billion years to cover, the book moves along at a brisk pace. After an initial chapter outlining the fundamental evidence that the Universe was born and has evolved over time, the bulk of the book progresses broadly forwards in time while diminishing in scale. From the broad cosmological questions of the early chapters, we move forward to the formation of our Galaxy, the life cycles of stars and the origins of

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