Astronomy-Physics Research Guide

The Astronomy Encyclopedia covers the full width and breadth of the discipline and includes more than 3,000 alphabetically organized articles accompanied by 500 stunning color and black and white photographs, star maps, and diagrams,

Sir Patrick's narrative recounts the history of space exploration, describes the Solar System, stars and galaxies, and explains the latest theories on the origins of the Universe. The book is illustrated with hundreds of maps and diagrams, plus the best photographs from ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, along with spectacular images from nearly four decades of robotic exploration of the planets.

Provides basic information about the solar system. Searchable by keyword. Browsable by people, location and images.

This practical guide to the night sky provides a host of recommendations on what to look for and when. The book can be used anywhere in the world and at any time of year.

Space Exploration Reference Library covers the space race, the Moon landings, joint U.S. and Russian space ventures, space equipment, the history of space probes and more. Plus it provides biographies of key figures like Sally Ride, Yuri A. Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, John H. Glenn, Jr., Ellen Ochoa, Hermann Oberth and many others. This source contains a wide-range of full and excerpted sources concerning the political, economic and scientific aspects of space exploration.