About Encyclopedia of Space
Description from the publisher:
This encyclopedia provides a guide to astronomy and space science and includes the facts and figures from the latest missions to the planets, and images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Topics include:
- Asteroids, Astronomical Names, Astronomy Timeline, Auroras and Haloes, Big Bang, Binocular Astronomy, Black Holes, Comets, Dark Matter, Daytime Astronomy, Dwarf Planets, Earth, Exploring Space, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Flying to Space, Futuristic Starships, Galaxies, Galaxy Formation, Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Globular Clusters, How Rockets Work, How Telescopes Work, Hubble Space Telescope, Impacts, Infrared Astronomy, International Space Station, Interplanetary Travel, Interstellar Medium, Jupiter, Launch Centers, Light, Life on Other Worlds, Living in Space, Local Group, Magellanic Clouds, Mapping the Night Sky, Mars, Mercury, Meteorites, Meteors, Milky Way Galaxy, Moon, Neptune, Northern Hemisphere Star Maps, Observing the Universe, Photographing the Night Sky, Planetary Nebulas, Planets and Moons, Polar Star Maps, Practical Stargazing, Radiations from Space, Radio Astronomy, Red Giants, Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes, Rocket Propulsion, Satellites and Orbits, Saturn, Science in Space, Shape of Space, Solar System, Space Debris, Space Launchers, Space Shuttle, Stars, Sun, Supernovas, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Unusual Telescopes, Uranus, Venus, and X-Ray Astronomy.
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