Once in college I had to take a gen ed physical sciences class. At the time, learning about dark energy and black holes sounded way more exciting than learning about geology. The class was taught by a tenured prof who would rather be in his lab (can you blame him?) and TA’d by a gaggle of single guys who hardly spoke English. It was an awful class, I understood very little and I spent so much time going to office hours to learn about math equations from a guy who couldn’t explain it. This book would have been a great pre-semester primer, because it covers the same material albeit at an even more surface level.

One thing I would like to learn about is all the theories to explain things that astrophysicists currently argue about, but I want to learn about this in a pop-sci way. This book, and that class, spent very little time on the cool parts of astrophysics and spent a lot of time explaining different types of waves, light spectrum, and chemical properties. To be honest, I think I would enjoy geology a lot more after all.