Galaxies & Stars

Philip's Stargazing is the perfect practical guide for both budding and experienced astronomers.If you buy just one guide...you won't do better tha...

Previously published as A History of the Universe in 21 Stars.'A delight and triumph ... A thing of beauty ... Truly, truly magical' talkRADIOLook ...

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price Astronomy Now ...

Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysi...

THE PERFECT ASTROLOGY GIFT FOR THE ZODIAC LOVER IN YOUR LIFE!Nobody's future is written in the stars, but we can use the stars to help write our fu...

Star clusters and black holes are moving into the focus of high resolution astrophysics, computationally as well as observationally. For the first ...

Modern telescopes of even modest aperture can show thousands of double stars. Many are faint and unremarkable but hundreds are worth searching out....

Stars are mostly found in binary and multiple systems, with at least 50% of all solar-like stars having companions; this fraction approaches 100% f...

'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize to...

Astronomers are at a crucial point in our understanding of the Milky Way. Deciphering the assembly history of our galaxy requires detailed mapping ...

300 Astronomical Objects is a handy and comprehensive reference to the most interesting celestial objects. It takes readers on a photographic tour ...

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Forget about rockets to Mars the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the...

Whether stargazing with the naked eye or observing deep space with the largest telescopes in the world, humans have a seemingly neverending fascina...

Planisphere and Starfinder is a practical guide to finding your way around the night sky. It demystifies astronomy and introduces basic stargazing ...