Astronomy Today: (Reissue) (The Random House Library of Knowledge)

By Dinah L. Moché and Dinah Moche

Book Overview

From the Random House Library of Knowledge comes a brand-new edition of the backlist favorite Astronomy Today. With a totally updated text, additional photos, and a fresh new cover, this beautiful, basic astronomy book incorporates the latest discoveries and ideas about our solar system and what lies beyond. The workings of telescopes, rockets, astronaut missions, and robot spacecraft are explained, and there are easy-to-read star maps for beginning stargazers.??

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394944232
• ISBN13: 9780394944234
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8

Customer Reviews

One of the best books I've ever read!

This is the first astronomy book I ever read, and it is so through that I still read it today. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a simple-but-scientific way to learn about astronomy.