Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

There are parts I have to return to, to understand better, but Neil de Grasse's sense of wonder at the vast universe, and the science it contains, is palpable and draws you in as surely and relentlessly as a gravitational pull (could not resist that!). I may not still be able to understand pulsars or quarks perfectly, but I do understand how little we know of the space we occupy and how insignificant earth is, in the vastness of it all.