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• Burnham’s Celestial Handbook: An Observer’s Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Vol. 2

  This comprehensive coverage of the thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system. The objects are grouped according to constellation, and their definitions feature names, coordinates, classification, and physical description, along with hundreds of visual aids. Volume II of the three-volume work ontains entries from Chamaeleon to Orion. Related posts Science of Astronomy – Information [...]

• Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

  The improbable story of the wildest idea-a space craft powered by hydrogen bombs-to come out of the space race. It was the late 1950s. The Cold War was raging. Sputnik had made its voyage and the space race was on. In America, it was the age of tail fins and “duck and cover,” but it [...]

• A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation

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• Children and Astronomy

  There is a big benefit in skill nowadays and the require thereof in our youth; yet with a little activity by adults in the science of astronomy and a relatively inexpensive teenager telescope you could show the universe in an undivided new way. There are a few clothes that you necessary before receiving a result [...]