Popular astronomy & space books

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Eyeing the Red Storm: Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite

Eyeing the Red Storm: Eisenhower and the First Attempt...

Author: Robert M. Dienesch
ISBN: 9780803255722
Format: Hardback
$67.95

Examines the birth of space-based reconnaissance not from the perspective of CORONA (the first photo reconnaissancesatellite...  Read More >>

Glacier National Park After Dark: Sunset to Sunrise in a Beloved Montana Wilderness

Glacier National Park After Dark: Sunset to Sunrise...

Author: John Ashley ,  John Ashley
ISBN: 9781591521785
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved

Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated...

Author: Marcia Bartusiak
ISBN: 9780300219661
Format: Paperback
$30.95

"The contentious history of the idea of the black hole the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the...  Read More >>

The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists...

Author: Gabriella Bernardi
ISBN: 9783319261256
Format: Paperback
$181.10

Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers...  Read More >>

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in...

Author: Paul Bogard ,  Paul Bogard
ISBN: 9781520019659
Format: Audio
$79.17

A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left.  Read More >>

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in...

Author: Paul Bogard ,  Paul Bogard
ISBN: 9781520019642
Format: Audio
$158.37

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Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets

Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the...

Author: Melissa L. Sevigny
ISBN: 9781941451045
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Tells the story of how a small corner of Arizona became Earth's ambassador to space. From early efforts to reach...  Read More >>

Exploring the Planets: A Memoir

Exploring the Planets: A Memoir

Author: Fred Taylor (Halley Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Halley Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780199671595
Format: Hardback
$68.95

The book offers a personal account of how the space programme has evolved, in particular exploring how the motivations...  Read More >>

Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars

Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the...

Author: Norbert Kraft ,  Gerard ?T Hooft
ISBN: 9781940363837
Format: Paperback
$25.99

Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant...  Read More >>

The Life Story of an Infrared Telescope

The Life Story of an Infrared Telescope

Author: John K. Davies
ISBN: 9783319235783
Format: Hardback
$155.22

Written by one of the astronomers who 'lived the dream' of working there this book is a restrospectively expanded...  Read More >>

Midnight Forest Coloring Book

Midnight Forest Coloring Book

Author: Individuality Books ,  Nora Mae
ISBN: 9781530566747
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Midnight Forest Coloring Book Coloring in Midnight Forest Coloring Book will be more than just a fun activity...  Read More >>

Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History

Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History...

Author: Roland Miller ,  Roger D. Launius
ISBN: 9780826356253
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Roland Miller’s colour photographs document the NASA, air force, and army facilities across the US that once played...  Read More >>

The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe

The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe...

Author: J. Richard Gott, III
ISBN: 9780691157269
Format: Hardback
$54.99

"J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge...  Read More >>

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager...

Author: Jim Bell
ISBN: 9781101983898
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"In The Interstellar Age, award-winning planetary scientist Jim Bell tells the story of the men and women who drove...  Read More >>

A Space Traveller's Guide To The Solar System

A Space Traveller's Guide To The Solar System

Author: Mark Thompson
ISBN: 9780552170581
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Have you ever dreamt of being an astronaut, travelling through the universe on your very own space mission? What...  Read More >>

Weird Astronomical Theories of the Solar System and Beyond

Weird Astronomical Theories of the Solar System and...

Author: David Seargent
ISBN: 9783319252933
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, Weird Astronomical Theories...  Read More >>

Elementary Cosmology: From Aristotle's Universe to the Big Bang and Beyond

Elementary Cosmology: From Aristotle's Universe to the...

Author: James J. Kolata
ISBN: 9781681740362
Format: Paperback
$105.60

In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is traced from...  Read More >>

Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An Introduction

Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An Introduction...

Author: James MacDonald
ISBN: 9781681740416
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Elementary Cosmology: From Aristotle's Universe to the Big Bang and Beyond

Elementary Cosmology: From Aristotle's Universe to the...

Author: James J Kolata
ISBN: 9781643278827
Format: Hardback
$201.30

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Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An introduction

Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An introduction...

Author: James MacDonald
ISBN: 9781643278773
Format: Hardback
$201.30

Following a brief overview of the background observational material, the basic equations describing the structure...  Read More >>

Andromeda

Andromeda

Author: C�line Brousson
ISBN: 9782372972178
Format: Paperback
$17.42

Una serie di guide all'osservazione e allo studio della sfera celeste, dei pianeti, delle costellazioni e delle...  Read More >>

What Star?

What Star?

Author: Brian Jones (Leeds Beckett University UK)
ISBN: 9780785833246
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System

Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System

Author: Michael Benson
ISBN: 9780565093877
Format: Hardback
$64.69

A visual journey of awe-inspiring beauty from planet Earth to the other planets in our Solar System. Michael Benson...  Read More >>

Orsa Maggiore

Orsa Maggiore

Author: Celine Brousson
ISBN: 9782372972635
Format: Paperback
$20.06

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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Katherine Blundell (Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199602667
Format: Paperback
$21.95

In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Blundell looks at the seemingly paradoxical, mysterious, and intriguing...  Read More >>

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