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Wonders of the Universe

de Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

Experience our universe as you've never seen it before

13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light-years across. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite,...

Just Visiting This Planet

de Neil De Grasse Tyson

In a companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, here is a completely new collection of questions and answers about the cosmos for stargazers of all ages.  Whether waxing about Earth and its environs,...

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System

de Ray Jayawardhana

Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas...

What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?

de Joshua S. Bloom

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded...

Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored (New in Paper)

de Ralph Lorenz & Jacqueline Mitton

For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted...

After Sputnik: The First Fifty Years of Space Flight

de Martin Collins

In the 50 years since Sputnik's historic orbit kickstarted a race to the stars, spaceflight has moved from a speculative and experimental science to a staple of contemporary life. Space exploration has changed...

A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering

de Ann K. Finkbeiner

LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, 2E

de Christopher De Pree

Astronomy is an ancient science on the cutting edge. Although it's been around for over 5,500 years, astronomers say that we have learned more than 90 percent of what we know in only the last 50 years--a disproportionate...

Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

de Roger D. Lanius, John M. Logsdon & Robert W. Smith

This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration...

The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be

de Dana Mackenzie

The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis

This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth...

The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference

de Alan Boyle

In support of Pluto-the cutest and most unfairly treated planet

Pity poor Pluto: It's a planet that was discovered because of a mistake, a planet that turned out not to be a planet at all, thanks to a still-disputed...

Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories

de Philip S. Harrington

Praise for Star Ware

"Star Ware is still a tour de force that any experienced amateur will find invaluable, and which hardware-minded beginners will thoroughly enjoy."

- Robert Burnham, Sky & Telescope magazine...

Dynamos: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2007

de Philippe Cardin & L.G. Cugliandolo

This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "Dynamos".

• Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in Dynamos

• Addresses each topic from the basis to...

Introduction to Relativity: For Physicists and Astronomers

de John B. Kogut

Introduction to Relativity is intended to teach physics and astronomy majors at the freshman, sophomore or upper-division levels how to think about special and general relativity in a fundamental, but accessible,...

Modern Astrodynamics

de Pini Gurfil

In recent years, an unprecedented interest in novel and revolutionary space missions has risen out of the advanced NASA and ESA programs. Astrophysicists, astronomers, space systems engineers, mathematicians...

Your Ticket to the Universe: A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

de Megan Watzke, Kimberly K. Arcand & Mario Livio

An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos. Accompanied by dramatic visuals, Your Ticket to the Universe is a hybrid coffee-table book and field guide.

Beginning with our...

Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity

de Roger Wiens

For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the...

The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide

de William H. Waller

This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it...

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System (New in Paperback)

de Ray Jayawardhana

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia...

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

de George Pendle

ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality,...