Astronomy - Planets: with foldout solar system

by Nigel Henbest, Studio Boni/Galante (Illustrator), Lorenzo Cecchi (Illustrator)

Planets explains the lastest and most up-to-date information relayed back to Earth from recent space missions like Voyager, Viking and Giotto. Stunning Discovery artwork reveals many newly found planetary secrets: moons and planetary rings, gigantic volcanic outbursts and hurricane force gas storms.


Includes an eight-page foldout that portrays the individual and unique natures of our neighbouring worlds in space - our Solar System.

38 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

Educated in Northern Ireland and at Leicester University where he studied physics, chemistry and astronomy. He did postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge but left to become a science writer. He has written 36 books and over 1,000 articles on astronomy and space many of them in collaboration with Heather Couper. Previously he has been Astronomy Consultant to New Scientist magazine, editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association and media consultant to the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Along with Couper and Stuart Carter, director of the Channel 4 series The Stars he set up Pioneer Productions and now develops ideas and proposals for that company.