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The Space Book Revised and Updated

From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy

by Jim Bell
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/10/2018

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A revised and updated edition of the successful book, now featuring the most recent discoveries, technologies, and images.

Since the original edition of The Space Book was published in 2013, much has happened in the world of space exploration. This revised and updated edition, with a new introduction from author Jim Bell, brings the popular Milestones book up to date. It includes the most exciting and newsworthy breakthroughs, from the groundbreaking discovery of the Trappist-1 system to the technologies of the future.

Take a full-color, chronological tour of the cosmos through completely new entries and spectacular images that cover developments in radio astronomy, NASA's mission to Jupiter, the new Earth-like exoplanets, the world's first interstellar solar sail mission, and more. Many existing entries have been updated with the results of completed and current missions, as well as illuminating recent photography.

"An extraordinary compilation of all that matters, ever mattered, or ever will matter in the universe." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

ISBN:
9781454929390
9781454929390
Category:
Popular astronomy & space
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-10-2018
Publisher:
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
214x186mm
Jim Bell

Dr. Jim Bell is a professor of geology and planetary science in Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration in Tempe, AZ, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Jim is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America.

As President of The Planetary Society, he is a prolific public commentator on science and space exploration, earning the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society for excellence in public communication of planetary science.

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