Recommendations of Books & Movies about Astronomy



This book tries to explain some essencial questions about the Universe with simplicity and practicity, from the view of a famous astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

This book, by Stephen Hawking, explains the harder theories which try to explain the Universe, like M-theory and Superstrings theory.

Pale Blue Dot is a book that talks about our insignificant size in a comparison with the Universe. This book describes how will be our future in space, and comments some facts about the Solar System.

50 Astronomy Ideas You Really Need to Know comments about 50 topics around astronomy, starting with simple ideas like our solar system and the composition of the stars, to the hardest things you can imagine.

A Brief History Of Time is the most popular book wrote by Stephen Hawking. This book describes the history of the astronomy around the world.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions is another book wrote by Stephen Hawking, and it is his last book. It tries to make you to understand the Universe with the answers for 13 polemic questions about the life and the Universe.

The Universe is a documentary of The History Channel. It has 88 episodes and 9 seasons. Each episode comments about other theme about astronomy.

Gravity is a popular movie about astronauts that drifted in space, so they try to survive while they are waiting for rescue.

IO is a original movie by Netflix. It is a drama envolving the humanity that migrated for IO, a natural satellite of Jupiter, and a girl that stayed in Earth, and is reaserching how to bring the humanity back for Earth.

Apollo 13 is a movie based on true stories, that describes the NASA's failed mission Apollo 13.

Interstellar is the most popular movie about space. It is a great movie that includes several themes aroud astronomy. If you didn't watch it, go watch!

The Martian is another popular movie about space. It is about an astronaut that stay stuck in Mars to save his friends to come back to Earth. And there, he needs to survive.