num_pages: 240
description: This 1979 revision updates and covers every important subject, concept, and theory in clear, concise entries. It brings brings together the diversity of astronomical inquiry in a single context, including biographies of leading astronomers throughout history, summaries of the differen national space programs, and descriptions of all the significant celestial objects and the tools astronomers use to examine them. This volume discusses for the first time the rings of Uranus and Jupiter, the Ariane Rocket, Pluto's newly discovered moon.The text is enhanced by numerous illustrations, including 1979 photos taken from spacecraft on interplanetary missions, diagrams, charts and tables for such periodic phenomena as comets, meteor showers snd eclipses.This text is the keystone of the Crowell Series of Pictorial Guides to Astronomy.
language: English
title: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Space
publisher: Horizon Book Promotions