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The appearance of this new book is timely given the flurry of spacecraft activity that occurred during the 2020 opposition,

I acquired this book after reading Bill Barton’s notice on the BAA’s online forum (2021 Sep 2). ‘A Shining Furrow’

I am biased, but I think the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is one of the greatest

This book is another in Springer’s ‘Historical and Cultural Astronomy’ series. The editor-in-chief is William (Bill) Sheehan, with three other

This is a revised and extended English translation of the 2018 book Astronomie Solaire. The goal of the book is

Planetary Astronomy is a comprehensive reference book on observing and imaging the planets in our solar system. Written by seven

Vera Rubin (1928–2016) was one of the most outstanding observational astronomers of the modern era. Her meticulous research into the

In 1923 a young Englishwoman named Cecilia Payne, recently graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in natural sciences, arrived

John Robert Christianson, Professor Emeritus of History at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, takes the reader through the life of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).

There are countless publications listing the events in the sky for the coming year, some meeting these aims better than