( 5 reviews )
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 5 2002
Not just a year, but probably the REAL number of interesting facts there are in this book!!! If you even have a passing interest in astronomy, or even science in general, you must get and read this book. When you're done... keep it near by, and occasionaly thumb through it just for an amazing tid-bit of info which is at times beyond comprehension.....
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 9 2001
A very good book for mature ages down to early teens. I pick this book up every once in a while before I go to bed - even though I read it several times over just to wonder over the many interesting things in our universe. It is very well written by William A. Gutsch JR. (Ph.D) former Chairman of the American Museum-Hayden Planetarium New York, former President of the International Planetarium Society, Science Editor for WABC-TV and Special Science Correspondent for ABC's "Good Morning America". This man knows this subject and how to write about it in a way that will keep you reaching for the book time after time. Out of the many astronomy books I have in my collection, this one is among the tops for facts written very interestingly. Don't let a few "out of context" opinion writers steer you wrong about this book. Excellent book of facts reading for astronomy.
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( 4 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 29 2000
My cousins gave me this book, and it took me a year to finally start reading it. When I did, it got me even more interesting in astromony that I already was. True, a few things are hard to understand. I mean who gets this: "Normally, atoms are said to be neutral because the number of positively charged protons in their nuclei are matched by the number of negatively charged electrons whirling about each nucleus."But suppose you could understand that. This book is great. It is definitly NOT for children. Whoever wrote that must obviously a child themsevles because they have nothing better to say. (You can tell that by the length and words displayed in their review.) Don't let reviews stop you. Buy this book now if, espically if you have a strong interest in our universe and other ones out there. If you don't have an interest it will probably give you one, but then why would you buy it if you don't have an interest? Some of these facts include how we've sent signals into space to contact intelligent life, odd facts about the planets (such as how Mercury's day is longer than it year) and even things about Uranus's methane gas you thought you never knew! This is the best book alive. (Actually not.)
