Why don’t the stars fall on our heads? And many ...

Do stars come to life, live and die just like us? Why is Galileo so famous? How do you see inside a black hole if it's really that black? Are there Martians on Mars? Is there someone on the moon? Perché le stelle non ci cadono in testa? is an amusing mini-encyclopaedia in interview form on space and astrophysics, published as part of the Teste Toste series by Editoriale Scienza. In this series, the publishing house collects a diverse range of works dedicated to women and men who devoted their lives to knowledge and research. Margherita Hack – together with Federico Taddia – goes with readers on a celestial journey amidst spiral galaxies, threatening asteroids and retrograde planets to find an answer to the funniest and most bizarre questions we'd never have the courage to ask any other astrophysicist. The interview form makes this work very easy to read: we can just look at the questions and discover several anecdotes on the birth, evolution and death of stars, the importance of Galileo in scientific observation or how to identify black holes; or, we can go at our own pace, jumping around questions by simply following the links at the end of the page or as inspired by Roberto Luciani's illustrations. The 2011 winner of the category dedicated to scientific promotion in the Italian National Città di Biella Literary Award for Children, Perché le stelle non ci cadono in testa? features a dynamic and fun structure that will engage small readers in a constant yet simple dialogue with the great astrophysicist, who will help them understand how what happens in space doesn't just concern the past but our present too and, even more, our future.  

Perché le stelle non ci cadono in testa? E tante altre domande sull'astronomia (Why don't the stars fall on our heads? And many other astronomy questions)
by Federico Taddia and Margherita Hack
with illustrations by Roberto Luciani
Editoriale Scienza, 2022