FORTY WAYS TO KNOW A STAR (RIVERSIDE PRESS) (HB)

Forty Ways to Know a Star offers forty distinct ways of encountering, explaining and knowing a star. You might know it by its birth, by its death, by its galaxy, from a distance, from its matter, or up close and personal. Each meeting is illuminated by bespoke illustrations and elegant writing that turns the complexity of the physics into irresistible storytelling. Beautiful photographic imagery of the heavens is scattered throughout.