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Microcom's Space Bookshop sells a vast range of book on all aspects of professional and amateur astronomy, astrophysics, space research, space exploration, human spaceflight, commercial space applications and space technology.

For convenience, our books are divided into the following categories:



Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe.
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences. Prehistoric cultures left behind astronomical artifacts such as the Egyptian monuments and Stonehenge, and early civilizations such as the Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, and Indians performed methodical observations of the night sky. However, the invention of the telescope was required before astronomy was able to develop into a modern science. Historically, astronomy has included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy, the making of calendars, and even astrology, but professional astronomy is nowadays often considered to be synonymous with astrophysics.

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•Charts and Atlases

•Observation Guides

•Naked Eye Astronomy


•Binocular Astronomy

•Deep Sky Objects

•Telescopes and Equipment


•Astrophotography


•Radio Astronomy

•Infra Red Astronomy


•UV Astronomy

•X Ray Astronomy

•Gamma Ray Astronomy


•Celestial Mechanics

solar system

The Solar System[a] consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which were formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Of the many objects that orbit the Sun, most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets[e] whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets, the gas giants, are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The two largest, Jupiter and Saturn, are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium; the two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, are composed largely of ices, such as water, ammonia and methane, and are often referred to separately as "ice giants".Read more...

•Sun

•Moon                                                                                  

•Mercury


•Venus


•Earth


•Aurora


•Mars

•Jupiter

•Saturn

•Uranus

•Neptune

•Pluto

•Meteors and Meteorites

•Asteroids

•Comets


•Zodiac Lights

Stars and Galaxies

•Galaxies


•Stars


•Nebula


•Clusters


•Supernovae


•Pulsars


•Neutron Stars


•Gamma Ray Bursts


•Black Holes


•Quasars


•Interstellar Dust


•Extra Solar Planets


•Astrobiology


•Dark Matter and Energy


Astrophysics



Relativity, Gravity and Time                                              



•Relativity

•Gravity

•Time

Cosmology

Space Exploration

•Human Spaceflight

•Mercury

•Gemini


•Apollo


•Space Shuttle


•ISS


•Russian Spaceflight

•History of Spaceflight


•Solar System


•Hubble Space Telescope

Satellite Applications

•Satellite Communications

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•VSATs

•SNG

•Earth Observation

•Meteorology

•Navigation and Tracking

•Military Space

•Broadcasting

•Microgravity

•Space Tourism

Space Technology

•Launch Vehicles

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•Spacecraft

•Orbital Mechanics

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