Jefferis, David

Color illustrations, diagrams, and text tell the stories of individual pilots. Has a "Spotter's Guide" that shows aircraft drawn to scale.

Provides an introduction to telescopes and observatories, answering questions about the history of star spotting, how light travels through space, how optical telescopes work, x-ray astronomy, and related topics.

An introduction to space probes, answering questions about uncrewed spacecraft, the history of probes, how they work, various missions, and related topics.

Provides an introduction to galaxies, answering questions about what they are, where they come from, the Milky Way, the galactic halo, galaxy collisions, and related topics.

Presents an illustrated discussion of the megaplanets Jupiter and Saturn, covering their various features such as spots, rings, shepherd moons, and high winds, and discusses how to observe the planets with basic equipment.

Presents an illustrated discussion of ice dwarfs, Kuiper Belt Objects, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Pluto, and other relatively small bodies in the solar system such as asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and moons.

Describes the characteristics of Mercury and Venus, called the "hot planets" because of their proximity to the sun, and looks at how the two planets compare.

Presents an illustrated discussion of Uranus and Neptune, covering their temperatures, moons, rings, rotation, and more, and includes information about the Keck observatory and online sources for viewing the night sky.

Describes black holes and other mysterious space objects, covering such topics as black-hole-tracking spacecraft, energy beams, star births, wormholes, the black hole nearest to Earth, white dwarfs and neutron stars, new planets orbiting distant stars, and explosions and collisions in space.

Presents the field of biotechnology, which links biology and technology, discussing how living things can be altered by science and engineering.