# The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox - Hardcover

by **Andrew Cohen** (Author), **Brian Cox** (Foreword by)

**Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.**

We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and that's barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on every planet in the Solar System. But amid all this vastness, the Milky Way Galaxy, our Sun and the Earth are home to the only known life in the Universe - at least for now.

With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox, and access to all the latest stunning NASA photography, Andrew Cohen takes readers on a voyage of discovery, via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding Universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all - how did it all begin? We now know more about those first moments of existence than we ever thought possible, and hidden in this story of how it all began are the clues to the fate of the Universe itself and everything in it.

### Author Biography

Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series _Planets_. He has been responsible for a wide range of science documentaries, including _The Planets_, the Wonders trilogy, _Human Universe_, _Forces of Nature_ and _Stargazing Live_. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of _The Planets_, the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, _Human Universe_, _Forces of Nature_ and _Stargazing Live_.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 11.1 x 9.7 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** February 08, 2022

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