书名：Secret Lives of Planets行星们的秘密生活洞察宇宙作者新书

作者：Paul Murdin 

出版社名称：Hodder Paperbacks 

出版时间：2020 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781529319408 

商品尺寸：12.8 x 2.2 x 19.6 cm 

包装：平装

页数：288（以实物为准）

我们有这样的印象，太阳系就像一个时钟，或一个天文馆的仪器，是完全有规律的。在短时间内是这样的。但在更长时间的角度来看,行星,和他们的卫星,有令人兴奋的生活,完整的事件——例如，如你知道的，土星的卫星土卫六，拥有湖泊含有液态甲烷被飞涨的山丘和山谷包围,就像地球在我们脆弱的星球上生命进化而来的吗？还是说水星是zui害羞的行星？或者，火星zui大的火山是地球的100倍大，或者火星zui大的峡谷是美国大峡谷的10倍深，或者火星并不总是红色的，而是蓝色的？

保罗·默丁一生的天文学和奇迹达到了顶峰，这本迷人的新书揭示了你想知道的关于行星、它们的卫星以及我们在太阳系中的位置的一切。

We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or that Mercury is the shyest planet? Or, that Mars' biggest volcano is 100 times the size of Earth's, or that its biggest canyon is 10 times the depth of the Grand Canyon, or that it wasn't always red, but blue?

The culmination of a lifetime of astronomy and wonder, Paul Murdin's enchanting new book reveals everything you ever wanted to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system.

Paul Murdinhas worked as an astronomer in the USA, Australia, England, Scotland and Spain. Since 1963, he has been a research scientist (studying supernovae, black holes and neutron stars), an observatory administrator and a science policy maker for the government and the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK. He has travelled to universities and science centres in capital cities, to mountain-top observatories and to remote launch-pads. He works emeritus at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, England. He has had a secondary career as a broadcaster and commentator for the BBC and CNN, and is a talented lecturer and writer on astronomy. He is identified as the co-discoverer of the first stellar black hole found in our Galaxy, Cygnus X-1. He has been honoured by the Queen with an OBE for his work in international astronomy and for helping make astronomy accessible to everyone.