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The Sky: A User's Guide
by David H Levy
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The perfect introduction for the novice astronomer, this book stirs the imagination and puts observation in a framework of social activity and personal adventure. Written by an award-winning amateur astronomer and columnist, it is a technical guide to... ( read more)
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Solar System
by Nigel Hey
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Even though no little men have been found on Mars (or goddesses on Venus), our celestial neighborhood is stranger than anyone ever imagined. New information from robot probes and telescopes has exploded ideas taken for granted for years. Recently... ( read more)
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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites & Small Solar Syst
by National Research Co
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For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition to gather material over the next decade from Mars, an... ( read more)
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Smithsonian Intimate Guide To the Cosmos
by Dana Berry
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What does "dark energy" look like? Or a black hole swallowing an entire solar system? NASA illustrator Berry takes the reader by the hand for a visual tour of the "new" cosmos, to the farthest imaginable reaches of space.... ( read more)
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe
by Ian Ridpath
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Written by a distinguished team of scholars, this glorious encyclopedia takes readers from how the universe began to how it works and how it might end to such fascinating topics as the search for extra-terrestrial life. 900 full-color illustrations.... ( read more)
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Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
by David A Clary
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Now in paperback, the life and legacy of the much overlooked yet highly influential Robert Goddard. The brilliant, eccentric, and controversial pioneer of the space age.
More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius... ( read more)
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Apogee Books Space Series #48: Deep Space: The NASA Mission Reports with DVD
by Robert Godwin
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NASA's entire fleet of unmanned deep space probes, including Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, Deep Space One, Stardust, and NEAR are discussed in this comprehensive study of NASA's Deep Space Probe program. The press kits and flight... ( read more)
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The First Copernican
by Dennis Danielson
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A portrait of young mathematics prodigy Georg Joachim Rheticus describes how his work with his mentor, the aging astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, promoted the publication of the scientist's seminal work, De revolutionibus, a work that had a profound... ( read more)
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Destination Moon: The Apollo Missions in the Astronauts' Own Words (Smithsonian)
by Rod Pyle
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The Apollo space program was the largest technological undertaking of all time, and let to the greatest adventure of the 20th century. Born of the cold war, it was moved forward by the passion of 100,000 workers and $20 billion over ten years. Over that... ( read more)
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Mars: A Warmer, Wetter Planet: Climate Change on the Red Planet (Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences)
by Jeffrey S Kargel
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Mars is the Solar System's other wild, wet, water world. Long believed to have become cold, dead, and dry aeons ago, we now having striking new proof, not only that Mars was a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even... ( read more)
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Cosmic Butterflies: The Colorful Mysteries of Planetary Nebulae
by Sun Kwok
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Using more than 100 spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Kwok details the discovery process of the creation of planetary nebulae and of the future of the Earth's Sun.... ( read more)
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New Universe Theory with the Laws of Physics
by Bobby Mcgehee
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Big-Bang? Do you believe it? I don't. Being a career engineering-physicist, I always look for proof. For 50 years I have tried to prove the BB to myself. I have reviewed Slipher's red shift observation, reinterpreted it, and corrected Hubble's... ( read more)
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The Firefly Encyclopedia of Astronomy
by Paul Murdin
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Included in this extensive astronomy reference are accessible contributions by 650 world-leading astronomers covering history from the Big Bang to present, famous astronomer biographies, key space missions since the launch of Sputnik, and the work of... ( read more)
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Mission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft
by Daniel Fischer
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We are at the dawn of a new era in the study of space, all thanks to the Galileo space probe. Mission Jupiter brings us the exciting story of the Galileo mission to investigate Jupiter. The noted astronomer Daniel Fischer, co-author of Hubble: A New... ( read more)
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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins
by Michael D'Antonio
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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to... ( read more)
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The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
by Tom Standage
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The Neptune File is the first full account of the dramatic events surrounding the eighth planet’s discovery, and the story of two remarkable men who were able to “see” on paper what astronomers looking through telescopes for more than... ( read more)
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Field Guide To the Stars & Planets 3RD Edition Peterson Field Guide
by Jay Pasachoff
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Each guide employs the Peterson Identification system which pinpoints key field marks for quick recognition of species and easy comparisons of confusing look-alikes. Provide up-to-date range information.... ( read more)
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Other worlds :the search for life in the universe
by Michael D Lemonick
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Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? Recent discoveries have made it more likely than ever that we will know the answer to this age-old question in our lifetimes -- and that the answer most likely will be yes. No longer a subject relegated to the... ( read more)
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The Violent Universe: Joyrides Through the X-Ray Cosmos
by Kimberly A Weaver
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This volume reveals how astronomers use color to understand the energy and intensity of high-energy particles that travel at the speed of light, and the galacatic collisions, supernova eruptions, or stellar implosions that created them.... ( read more)
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The case for Mars :the plan to settle the red planet and why we must
by Robert Zubrin
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Argues that a manned expedition to Mars could cost less than one-
tenth of the $400 billion cited by NASA, is possible with existing
technology and expertise, could be funded with a combination of
public and private money, is not as dangerous as some... ( read more)
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