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by Dana Berry  Publisher Comments 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)  List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past few years, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with images of astonishing clarity and detail, images that have revolutionized how scientists and incidental stargazers alike perceive our universe. Other space probes, such as Galileo... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hodge Publisher Comments Tired of exploring planet Earth? Have you ever imagined what it would be like to explore the Moon? Ever wonder about the topography of Mars? In this unique guidebook all of your extraterrestrial wanderlust can be fulfilled as Paul Hodge takes you on a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Mishkin Publisher Comments Andrew Mishkin, a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a leader of NASA's robotic program, brings us this insider's look at the Mars Pathfinder probe that electrified the world's imagination. One hundred twenty-two million miles... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred Watson Publisher Comments The history of the telescope is a rich story of human ingenuity and perseverance involving some of the most colorful figures of the scientific world- Galileo, Johann Kepler, Isaac Newton, William Herschel, George Ellery Hale, and Edwin Hubble.Stargazer... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Kerrod Publisher Comments This stunningly illustrated visual guide to the heavens deserves a place on every amateur astronomer's bookshelf. It features both sky maps and dramatic photos of all major constellations, from Andromeda to Virgo. It also provides a stargazer's excursion... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Scagell and David Frydman Publisher Comments A practical, concise beginner's guide to viewing the night sky through binoculars. Stargazing with Binoculars is ideal for newcomers to astronomy. Authors Robin Scagell and David Frydman include the wide range of binoculars on the market and provide... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Apt Publisher Comments Orbit Orbit takes the reader into space for astronauts' views of home: Cape Cod arching into the Atlantic, Mount Everest casting its shadow over lesser peaks, the sands of the Sahara arrayed in endless patterns. Like any travelers, these voyagers in... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments This fully updated 2006 edition of the "Yearbook of Astronomy" features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Serge Brunier Publisher Comments An innovative guide to the night sky. Most casual stargazers and amateur astronomers have limited time to spend on their hobby. Given the choice, they would prefer to spend their time viewing stars and constellations rather than trying to find or... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies
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by Bart Jan Bok Publisher Comments A swirling spiral of 100 billion star-suns, star clusters, nebulae, and cosmic dust, the Milky Way is our Home Galaxy; yet research during the past ten years have overturned assumptions about even its most fundamental characteristics.... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Krauss Publisher Comments In this new edition of The Fifth Essence, the single best book ever written on the mystery of "dark matter" in the universe, Krauss shows how the dark-matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald A Beattie Publisher Comments The book provides the early history of on-site lunar experiments, raising important questions about a shift in NASA policy which led to some of the most dramatic planetary-science developments of our time.... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Harwood Publisher Comments Since the days of Sputnik and Laika, the National Geographic Society has chronicled each step in space exploration. Astronomer and space program insider Maran presents the mind-boggling complexities of the cosmos and space science in a straightforward... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $7.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Furniss Synopsis Few events in history have been more monumental than the emergence of the Space Age, which began with the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. During the next two decades, more than 1,600 spacecraft of all varieties were launched, mostly into the earth's... (read more) List Price $24.98 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger D Launius Publisher Comments Space travel has gone from fantasy to reality in just fifty years where will we be fifty years from now? This breathtaking book follows our projections for space exploration in the 1950s to our actual accomplishments today and goes on to predict the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ward Publisher Comments Peter Ward is a distinguished professor, scientist, and author whose earlier book Rare Earth, with its dim view of the possibilities of complex life beyond our planet, created a rift in the science community so controversial he was featured on the front... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Price Publisher Comments Stargazing is an activity that lasts a lifetime. There is nothing like the thrill of glimpsing at the rings of Saturn for the first time or seeing, with the aid of a simple pair of binoculars, a fuzzy patch in the sky resolve into a cluster of sparkling... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Zimmerman Publisher Comments Spectacular images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope have become so routine that it's easy to forget the astronomical community's despair in 1990, when NASA discovered that the main mirror was improperly shaped. In The Universe in a Mirror... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Man Publisher Comments This book tells of the billions of wandering objects, from dust-particles to moon-sized lumps of rock, and of the random but vital roles they play in the drama of our evolving solar system. To human beings on Earth, comets have always been objects of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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