Astronomy

First man on the Moon Neil Armstrong reveals the adventure of the first Moon landing, and how the Earth and the Moon came to be, in this unique non-fiction picture book.

Describes the origin of the reusable launch vehicle concept during the 1960s, its evolution into a viable flying machine in the early 1970s, and its subsequent design, engineering, construction and operation.

Since the 1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons and sun. These probes have amassed a visual record of other worlds. This book presents these photographs. It includes essays that explain the story behind these photographs.

Tells the story of the birth and life of the cosmos. This book allows readers to see the mysterious objects and phenomena that inhabit the far reaches of the cosmos and the earliest times of existence.

Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from.

Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science.

An illustrated book on Hubble - one of the most successful telescope constructed, which changed the face of space, that reveals the most provocative and unprecedented images of the universe, gathered by Hubble over its lifetime.

Helps you discover the world of astronomy, from moons and stars to planets and galaxies. This title offers an introduction to children learning about how we have viewed the stars and planets through the ages and how this science is continued today.

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers.

"This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price"Astronomy Now "A handy and straightforward guide ... attractive little booklet" British Astronomical Association's 'Journal' "an ideal Christmas stocking-filler" The Observatory