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Radio Universe

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12th March 2026

Price: £25

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781529399004

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Reviews

Wall Street Journal
Thoroughly engaging . . . allows us to see science in the making. Chapman serves as a wonderful guide, whose voice is reminiscent of Carl Sagan's, although with an extra and very welcome dollop of impish humor
Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at Night
A dispatch from the frontiers of science, from a brain fizzing with ideas and energy
Washington Post
An illuminating and entertaining look at the earliest stars of our cosmos. Chapman is a witty and straightforward guide, and her enthusiasm is infectious
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PRAISE FOR FIRST LIGHT, BY EMMA CHAPMAN
New Scientist
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
The Spectator
A brave new world of cosmis surveillance is here
Bookseller
A dazzling trip into outer space reveals how radio waves have helped us solve the mysteries of the universe's darkest corners and deepest past