Astronomy, Space & Time Books

A guide to the northern (40N to 60N) night sky. It describes the movement of planets, solar and lunar eclipses, meteor showers and comets. It discusses various brands of telescopes and web cams.

Guides you through what there is to see in the sky, why it's interesting and how previous generations have viewed and interpreted it. This book is organised month by month, and takes you through the various stories - mythological, historical and scientific - associated with the night sky and provides diagrams to identify the constellations.

Features a collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to events in the year, 2009: planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae and phases of the moon.

Presents a practical hour-by-hour tracker, with a full-colour season-by-season guide to exploring the skies. Major constellations are used as signposts to navigate the night sky, introducing the novice astronomer to the joys of stargazing. The wallet contains illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to use the planisphere.

An introduction to the history of the universe. This book presents the pictures of the Universe obtained by instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope or the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Takes the reader on a guided tour of the stars and constellations seen from the northern hemisphere, using easily recognizable key star groups to 'jump' from one area of the sky to the next. All stars shown on the maps can be seen with the naked eye.

'A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent '(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride.

Getting a grip on the creation and ultimate fate of the universe is one of the great scientific stories of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first, the story is expanding to enfold many universes. This book tells this story. Using astronomical data, the author explores the Big Bang, theories of everything, and our cosmic future.

Navigates the frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. The author describes how the universe began, what the early universe looked like, how its structure developed, and what emerged to hold it all together. He explains how stars and galaxies formed and the story of how life emerged.

Night Scenes 2009 is an updated edition with an extra 4 pages for 2009.

Fascinating guide for beginning amateur astronomers using small telescopes in the northern and southern hemisphere.

Using high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, this title embarks on a voyage to the edge of the cosmos.

Binoculars provide a great start in astronomy. Compared with telescopes, they are comparatively cheap and easy to use, they are light and compact. This book reveals what to expect from a pair of binoculars and how to choose the right ones if you are buying for the first time, or up-grading.

Answers to all those niggling questions you have about the universe. Is there a dark side to the Moon? Can roses grow on the Moon? And what happens when a comet hits the Sun? Patrick Moore has been presenting for over 50 years.

Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain? What's beyond the edge of the Universe? Did aliens build the stars? Can we live forever? This work presents an eye-opening look at the nature of reality and the place of life in the universe.

A brand new edition of this Philip's bestseller, fully updated to include the latest telescopes and accessories on the market. Many people dream of exploring the heavens with a telescope, and some spend quite large sums of money in realizing this dream, spurred on by amazing pictures in magazines. But some of these telescopes end up gathering dust, either because their owners expect too much or ..

An accessible guide to the wonders of the night sky, now updated From asteroids to black holes, from quasars to white dwarfs, this new edition of Astronomy For Dummies takes backyard stargazers on a grand tour of the universe.

The truth may or may not be out there, but space is the place to look, this guide takes you from our own moon to the frontiers of the universe - and then speculates about what lies beyond. It gives information on various planets in the solar system, and advice on observing the planets and stars with binoculars, telescopes and the naked eye.

The author of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'The Code Book' tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. An exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created?