Astronomy - A Beginner's Guide by William H. Waller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Beginner's Guides
To study astronomy is to consider the most wondrous phenomena on the grandest of scales - the universe and all it contains. Beginning with our earliest explorations of the night sky, William Waller takes us on an enthralling journey through the Milky Way and far, far beyond. He combines science and his ...Show more
Astroquizzical : A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree by Jillian Scudder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy
In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the ...Show more
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies by JILLIAN SCUDDER
$39.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy
A beautifully illustrated, enlightening edition of astronomer Jillan Scudder's exploration of our universe. Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the distant stars and galaxies back over 13.8 billion years. Astroquizzical explores this ...Show more
Backyard Astronomer's Guide by TERENCE DICKINSON
$59.95 AUD
Category: Astronomy
The touchstone for contemporary stargazers. This classic, groundbreaking guide has been the go-to field guide for both beginning and experienced amateur astronomers for nearly 30 years. The fourth edition brings Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer's invaluable manual completely up-to-date. Setting a new sta ...Show more
Collins Stars and Planets Guide (Collins Guides) by Ian Ridpath
$39.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Collins Guides
The classic guide to the night sky, now in its fifth edition as part of the authoritative `Collins Guide' series. A comprehensive guide to all the stars and celestial objects visible with the use of binoculars or an average-sized telescope, this fully revised edition features updated and extended text, ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Cosmic Impact - Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets by Andrew May
$19.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Is Earth really doomed to be destroyed by a cosmic catastrophe? Cosmic Impact, in Icon's burgeoning Hot Science series, has the answers.As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the ...Show more
Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe
$19.98 AUD
Category: Astronomy
Life. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search "to infinity and beyond". In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Discovering Planets and Moons by .
$29.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Discovering
With a unique glow-in-the dark tactile book cover that recreates the cratered surface of the moon, DISCOVERING PLANETS AND MOONS is the ultimate guide to the most fascinating features of our solar system. Blast off into outer space with DISCOVERINGS PLANETS AND MOONS From the icy outer reaches of our so ...Show more
Dr Space Junk vs the Universe - Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling fieldof space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the commonperception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Hercaptivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanningsome 60 years -- a mere s ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy by Marcia Bartusiak
$32.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves-and celebrates their recent discovery In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity-vibrations in space-time, called gravi ...Show more