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The Bodley Head has signed a book from astrophysicist professor Lucie Green that provides "an ingenious new way of exploring the universe and revealing its invisible secrets”.
Will Hammond, deputy publishing director, acquired world rights to The Universe In Your Pocket: Ten Cosmic Maps that Explain Everything from Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit. It will be published in autumn 2024.
“From a simple plan of the night sky to a cutting-edge visualisation of the shape of the entire universe, each of the book’s 10 maps will navigate the reader through the next chapter in an ever-expanding journey from Earth to the edge of the cosmos,” the blurb reads.
“Each map also represents a major scientific advance and a startling new way of thinking about the universe. Allowing the reader to visualise the universe's hidden landscapes, they offer an immediate and accessible way to grasp everything from the fundamentals of gravity to the latest understanding of dark energy.”
Hammond said: "The joy of this book is its immediacy. The maps offer the simplest and most powerful way to grasp the unimaginable and apprehend the unknown. The richness of the book is in Lucie’s superbly engaging, expert explanations of the extraordinary insights and feats of exploration that lie behind them. As Lucie writes, this is a small book about human curiosity on the grandest scale."
Green is a professor of physics working at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. She is a world authority on solar physics and has worked with the space agencies of America, Europe and Japan on the design of their missions. Most recently she has been working on the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter Mission, which launched in February 2020 to obtain the closest ever images of the sun. She has presented numerous science programmes on BBC television and radio and is the author of 15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun (Viking).