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Mitton, Jacqueline , Mitton, Simon

The Scholastic Encyclopedia of Space

80 pp. | Scholastic | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-590-59227-0 $$14.95
(3) 4-6 This up-to-date summary of our current ideas about the universe starts, rather unusually, from the cosmos and works its way in. Sections on observation and space-based astronomy close the book. The illustrations are appropriate and include recent Hubble photos, and "Fact File" boxes provide information (size, temperature, age, etc.) on specific subjects, from the Milky Way to Mercury. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Harry Clement Stubbs

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