TV Schedule/Programs
Six essays by ASTRONOMY magazine Associate Editor Richard Talcott -- one for each program of the STEPHEN HAWKING'S UNIVERSE series -- explain the ideas, discoveries, answers, and questions of the universe and beyond. These original essays draw from the programs and analyze the key issues, whether simple or complex. Also included: national and local TV schedule information.

Strange Stuff Explained
What in the world (or in the universe) are quarks and quasars, nebulae and neutrinos? How can time be imaginary? Is a wormhole anything like an anthill? For definitions and descriptions of the tricky terminology of the universe, this is where the strange stuff becomes a little less so. 

MARCELO GLEISER: Where Does Matter Come From?

MICHIO KAKU: Is Time Travel Possible?

CARLOS FRENK: Where Is the Missing Matter?

ALAN GUTH: An Eternity of Bubbles?

SETH SHOSTAK: An Inhabited Universe? 

MICHIO KAKU:  Is There a Theory of Everything?

LEE SMOLIN: What Is the Future of Cosmology?