50 Things to See in the Sky by Sarah Barker; Maria Nilsson (Illustrator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Space
This hip and handy guide helps you learn the science behind blue skies, sun dogs, and the solar eclipse, and shows you how to observe nocturnal wonders such as lunar halos, Martian ice caps, and far-off galaxies. Fifty celestial phenomena come to life with expert tips from astrophysicist Sarah Barker an ...Show more
Apollo - The Mission to Land a Man on the Moon by Al Cimino
$35.00 AUD
Category: Space
Apollo follows man's dream of walking among the stars and charts how space travel and space programs have grown since then. In 2019, it will have been 50 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. When his famous words came crackling across the atmosphere--"That's one small st ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Space | 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
First on the Moon - The Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle
$44.99 AUD
Category: Space
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, this lavishly illustrated book--featuring stunning photographs, many previously unpublished, and other rarely seen images and documents--tells the incredible story of the first men on the Moon.Acclaimed science author Rod Pyle (Mi ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Space
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Space | Series: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Moon: Nature and Culture by Edgar Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Space | Series: Earth
Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity's relationship with the moon has been ...Show more
Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras by Piers Bizony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Space
Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives--taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo ...Show more
Night Sky Planisphere (22 cm): Southern Hemisphere Edition by David Chandler
$27.95 AUD
Category: Space | Series: Quasar Ser.
A planisphere is a hand held aid used to identify which stars and constellations are visible. It's easy to use. Just turn the disc so the date lines up with the current time and it shows you what the sky looks like now! This special double-sided design makes it easier to relate to what you see in the sk ...Show more
Searching for the Oldest Stars - Ancient Relics from the Early Universe by Anna Frebel
$44.99 AUD
Category: Space
A leading astronomer takes readers behind the scenes of the thrilling science of stellar archaeology and explains how sections of the night sky are "excavated" in the hunt for extremely rare, 13-billion-year-old relic stars and how this quest reveals tantalizing new details about the origins and evoluti ...Show more
Space Atlas, Second Edition by James Trefil
$85.00 AUD
Category: Space
"The tour starts close to home within the first domain, our own solar system. There is a tremendous variety here, from the sun scorched rocks of Mercury to the icy vastness of the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto. We see the sun and planets born from the collapse of an interstellar dust cloud whose atoms were t ...Show more
The Art of Urban Astronomy - A Guide to Stargazing Wherever You Are by Abigail Beall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Space
Did you know that stars are seasonal? That Orion is one of the brightest constellations? That a single day on Venus is longer than an entire year on Venus? Space has captivated mankind since the beginning of time. Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon and since then o ...Show more