Space age lunar and planetary missions offer a new and enlarged perspective on volcanism, extending our experience to features discovered beyond this planet. Starting with Earth, Volcanoes of the Solar System takes the reader on a guided tour of the…
In 1947 zag een Amerikaan negen schotelvormige objecten bij een berg vliegen, en de berichten in de kranten spraken voor het eerst over "vliegende schotels"
Sindsdien hebben duizende mensen ufo's gezien en gefotografeerd, of claimden door…
In this golden age of astronomy, new discoveries have proliferated in the past year: life on Mars, an ocean on Europa, and planets around other stars. On the heels of Goldsmith's The Hunt for Life on Mars comes this exciting account of the new…
Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky -- star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies -- within reach of amateur astronomers. And it isn't even necessary to image many of these deep-sky objects…
Want to see spiral arms of M33, M51 or M101... in a 10 inch scope? Confused about why certain not-too-dim "faint fuzzies" cannot be seen at all- even at low power under clear, dark conditions? Do you enjoy lots of graphs, charts, equations and…
The Hubble Space Telescope's spectacular pictures of nearby planets, remote stars, and distant galaxies captured the public imagination in a way not seen since the heady days of the Apollo Space Program. In Visions of Heaven, we see their full…