Carl Sagan wrote in the June 1974 issue of Astronomy: “Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of ...

A ago year photographer Andrew Studer captured one of the iconic images from last year’s total solar eclipse. Now, it will be the cover of a textbook.

A new introductory textbook called Astronomy has just been published by OpenStax, a national, non-profit project to develop high-quality, introductory textbooks that are free to students.

"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has served as humanity's tireless eye in the sky, capturing breathtaking views of the ...

Here’s a few of the fascinating innovations that, as Jackie explains, changed how we view—and how I think—about space forever.. Cosmos in Color. My college astronomy textbook was filled with ...

The Elements of Astronomy: a Non-Mathematical Textbook for Use as an Introduction to the subject in Colleges, Universities, etc, and for the General Reader. Nature 119 , 593–594 (1927). https ...

ALTHOUGH primarily intended for students in civil engineering, this book is admirably adapted for a larger class of readers. A book on practical astronomy must necessarily take a lot of the ...

But an introductory astronomy class in college did spark my curiosity, ... My 19-year-old brain could hardly comprehend the gravity of that based on merely textbook readings and computer labs alone.