Astronomy & Space Exploration

"A work of art [that] no amateur astronomer should be without."
-- Astronomy Forum

The Firefly Planisphere is a valuable tool for beginner and advanced stargazers. The previous edition, published in 2013, had star maps up to 2022. This sixth edition updates the maps to 2028.

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einsteins General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust.

Your Night Sky Companion

A richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about constellations, planets, comets, the northern lights, and more.

Who isnt fascinated by the sheer size of the universe? Stars offers a straightforward guide to what we know and how we know itfrom the Big Bang to star nurseries andto the beginnings of life on planet Earth.