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Interior design by Brian Chojnowski

Jacket Design by Tal Gorersky

Jacket Photograph by Matthias Clamer for StocklandMartel.com

Cover photograph and photos on pages

Photos on pages Liz Bretz

Photos on pages Alamy

Photo of white dwarf on page NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScl), and M. Barstow

(University of Leicester)

Photo of neutron star on page NASA

Photos on pages Gettyimages

Photo on page Shutterstock

Photo of Rachel Carson on page from Library of Congress

Photos via Wikimedia Commons on pages

Illustration on page by Alexandra Rushfield

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014017574

ISBN 978-1-4767-5788-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-5790-2 (ebook)

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