The numerical work is really quite simple and basic, and should frighten nobody who has a genuine wish to learn a little more than might be gleaned from one of the many coffee-table books covering similar ground...This is a useful book for students, and would also suit the teacher who may touch on astronomical topics during a science course. The style and content will allow the text to be revised in years to come as new discoveries and theories prove to make this necessary, and at a cost that is very appropriate for the target market. --Gnomon, Newsletter of the Association for Astronomy Education

• 1 Spaceship Earth.- 2 The Language of Starlight.- 3 The Moon.- 4 The Universal Force.- 5 The Inferior Planets.- 6 The Planet Mars.- 7 The Planet Jupiter.- 8 The Planet Saturn.- 9 The Twilight Zone of the Solar System.- 10 The Debris of the Solar System.- 11 The Comets.- 12 The Sun.- 13 The Celestial Sphere and Time.- 14 The Stars.- 15 Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars.- 16 Stellar Evolution.- 17 Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets.- 18 Violent Stars.- 19 The Galaxies.- 20 Quasars, Active Galaxies and Cosmology.- Glossary of Terms.

The numerical work is really quite simple and basic, and should frighten nobody who has a genuine wish to learn a little more than might be gleaned from one of the many coffee-table books covering similar ground...This is a useful book for students, and would also suit the teacher who may touch on astronomical topics during a science course. The style and content will allow the text to be revised in years to come as new discoveries and theories prove to make this necessary, and at a cost that is very appropriate for the target market. --Gnomon, Newsletter of the Association for Astronomy Education

• 1 Spaceship Earth.- 2 The Language of Starlight.- 3 The Moon.- 4 The Universal Force.- 5 The Inferior Planets.- 6 The Planet Mars.- 7 The Planet Jupiter.- 8 The Planet Saturn.- 9 The Twilight Zone of the Solar System.- 10 The Debris of the Solar System.- 11 The Comets.- 12 The Sun.- 13 The Celestial Sphere and Time.- 14 The Stars.- 15 Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars.- 16 Stellar Evolution.- 17 Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets.- 18 Violent Stars.- 19 The Galaxies.- 20 Quasars, Active Galaxies and Cosmology.- Glossary of Terms.