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.

History of astronomy from Newton to Poincare.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich Guide to Astronomy. This exciting new book provides an unparalleled understanding of all aspects of astronomy and offers a new appreciation of our place in the cosmos.

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.

Includes several studies involving astronauts and cosmonauts; and discusses the field of space tourism. This book deals with psychological, psychiatric, and psychosocial issues that affect people who live and work in space. It emphasizes the findings from psychological research conducted during actual space missions.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us magnificent high resolution views of the gigantic cosmic collisions between galaxies. Hubble's images are snapshots in time and catch the colliding galaxies in different stages of collision. Colliding galaxies very likely, hold some of the most important clues to our cosmic past and to our destiny.

The most comprehensive account of Australian astronomy to date.

Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools. It was a coherent body of practices, strongly supported by social institutions. And alchemy was viewed as a part of natural philosophy. Looking at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking, this title shows the many ways in which astrology and alchemy diverge as well as intersect.

Here are six accessible essays by those who walk the line between science and sicence fiction, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature, aimed at readers who share their fascination with the deepest mysteries of the universe.

Milestone pictorial presentation of the universe with over 300 photographs including Halley's comet and Supernova 1987A.

An 1833 introduction to astronomy for the interested lay person, by the foremost astronomer of his day.

A pictorial journey through the universe, this work shows us such startling sights as butterfly nebulae, sun plasma loops, gas pillars, young stars and whole galaxies. It offers detailed images of planets' surfaces, craters and atmosphere. These images from the Cassini mission focus in on Saturn's beautiful rings and moons.

Patrick Moore has done more to raise the profile of astronomy among the British public than any other figure in the scientific world. 'The Sky at Night' is the world's longest running TV series with the same presenter. This is his autobiography, written on his 1908 typewriter.

1534-1687 and the Space Age Epilogue.

Chronicles the advances and discoveries, including the first manned spaceflight and first man in orbit, the first unmanned landing on the moon, the first craft to leave the Earth's orbit, the manned moon landings, the advent of the Space Shuttle, and the first probes to Mars, Venus and the outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Focusing on the basic essentials of astronomy, this work offers a technology/new media package that includes: 6 new interactives, PowerWeb, and, Online Learning Center. It also includes a CD-ROM that provides fresh and different text material/animations/links to enhance student comprehension.