(Hardback)
By: Erik Asphaug
ISBN: 9780062657923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the worlds most innovative planetary geologists.
In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon.
(Paperback)
By: George Moromisato
ISBN: 9781591935575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Adventure Publications, Incorporated
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George Moromisato introduces 101 objects and phenomena of the night sky, such as Saturn's rings and the Andromeda Galaxy, and he teaches readers what to look for and when and where to look.
(Hardback, New ed.)
By: C. Porco
ISBN: 9780691124643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: P. Andrew Karam
ISBN: 9781780238302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Comets takes the reader on a far-ranging exploration of these fascinating phenomena -
(Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition)
By: Christopher Impey
ISBN: 9780691169224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Edward Belbruno
ISBN: 9780691128221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Introduces readers to advances in American space exploration. This book discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313, a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system - and, more.
(Hardback)
By: John Chambers
ISBN: 9780691145228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Tells the story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the likely way it formed.
(Paperback)
By: Professor James Geach
ISBN: 9781780235165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos Galaxy explores the enigma of our cosmic habitat, chronicling how our home in the Universe came to be.
(Paperback)
By: James Bunnell
ISBN: 9781098371449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: David A. Weintraub
ISBN: 9780691180533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Maria Golia
ISBN: 9781780234977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Meteorite: Nature and Culture is a unique, richly illustrated cultural history of these ancient and mysterious phenomena.
(Paperback)
By: Edgar Williams
ISBN: 9781780232812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Moon gives a comprehensive account of our lunar companion's significance, tracing its origins out of a collision with Earth and following its rich cultural resonance in the worlds of literature, art, religion and politics.
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Donald K. Yeomans
ISBN: 9780691173337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Tom Anderson
ISBN: 9781591934912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Adventure Publications, Incorporated
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(Spiral bound)
By: Jonathan Poppele
ISBN: 9781591935810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Adventure Publications, Incorporated
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This tabbed booklet helps readers to locate, identify, and learn about stars and constellations of the Northern Hemisphere, as well as other objects of the night sky such as the moon, planets, satellites, and more.
(Hardback)
By: William Firebrace
ISBN: 9781780238357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Star Theatre
(Paperback)
By: Alan Hirshfeld
ISBN: 9781934137789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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A wondrous tale of cosmic exploration and the colorful characters who ushered astronomy into the modern age
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Mike Lynch
ISBN: 9781647554194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Adventure Publications, Incorporated
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(Hardback)
By: Fulvio Melia
ISBN: 9780691095059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity, that there exist isolated pockets of spacetime shielded completely from our own This book presents evidence that just such an entity, with a mass of about three million suns, is indeed lurking at the center of our galaxy.
(Paperback)
By: J. Richard Gott
ISBN: 9780691181172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: J. Richard Gott
ISBN: 9780691157269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his gripping insider's account of how a generation
(Hardback)
By: Jay M. Pasachoff
ISBN: 9781780237572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The Sun offers an engaging and informative account of what scientists know about the sun, and the history of these discoveries. Illustrated with a wide variety of beautiful solar images. This informative book will appeal to both scientists and a more general readership interested in the star at the centre of our solar system.
(Hardback)
By: Tom Jones
ISBN: 9781426201219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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An astronaut and a geologist team up to investigate how the earth itself can help science unravel the mysteries of the heavens.
(Hardback, Classic Format)
By: David Malin
ISBN: 9781838660154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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A gorgeous exploration of the ways in which humans have documented the beauty of the cosmos in a new compact edition
