Customer Reviews

The Sun

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That book is about the sun, but the sun is so much more than just the sun. The sun gives us amazing Northern Lights, sparkling solar coronas, mysterious green flashes, wonderful halos, pillars and so on, and so on. The book has inspiring pictures of all these phenomenas. One also will see the pictures of prominences and flares. I really recommend that awesome book.

Ever wonder about the big glowing thing above you that seems to be all over the place all the time during the day? Wonder no more. Holy @#%*!! Why isn't everyone flipping out at how amazing the sun is!? And that we have mind blowingly close, beautiful, evil, haunting pictures of it?! Seriously, there is this thing that's setting off its own arsenal of countless numbers of hydrogen bombs all at once and on itself, and we're constantly spinning around it, and there is a book that give you a beyond crazy close look at it. If this book had come out 100 years ago it would be hailed as the most amazing thing mankind had ever seen. Now it just sort of sits on a bookshelf in the astronomy section. Get with it people, and go stare at the sun.

This little book has amazing pictures of the Sun. Great little conversation piece for the coffee table...especially if you've worked on some of the missions that took the pictures.

This book is a well made hard cover with extremely well made and quality pages with vibrant full color images. It is both informative and serves as an excellent coffee table type book on the Sun. The iages are exceptional and well printed. The authors essays are enjoyable and informative.

Forget spectroscopy and formulae. Forget myth and poetry. SEE the monstrous forces at work in the corona, on the surface. Especially in ultraviolet and x-ray photos shown here in this amazing little book. Just...drop to your knees in awe; there's no other phrase for it Our terrifying star is JUST BIG ENOUGH to keep us toasty without toasting our vulnerable little butts into oblivion. The sun should be the first weird thing a kid falls in love with, and this book will do the trick. Hand this to a child and watch a lifelong obsession begin. Hand it to an adult, and watch their mouths twist with fear and pleasure. Why on earth don't we just hand PHOTOS to schoolkids? A picture is so much more efficient.

This little hand-size book contains photos of x-ray, ultraviolet and infrared images of sunspots, granules of plasma, the corona, huge prominences of charged plasma arcing along magnetic field lines, and many other wonders---all with small blurbs to keep you up to speed. But let the photos do the work. It'll blow you away. Best thing I got for Christmas this year!

The book take you on a picture journey of our life supporting star. Very nicely done and you will certainly love the Sun even more after reading this book... A great buy..

This book, although a little smaller (in size, not in page count) than I expected, didn't disappoint me in terms of illustration. The images are amazing, and all the texts are very nice to read. Excellent for a gift.

It's a nice small coffee table book, long on pictures, short on words. It was worth buying just skim to through the color photo collection, some of which I have seen nowhere else. The details revealed by some of the high resolution photos are simply incredible.

Such a small book! Such a big subject! The Sun is a fascinating and beautiful book, and it is the perfect size to take around with you or leave in your bathroom/coffee table/etc.
Each chapter explores a basic facet of the Sun-sunspots, aurora, flares, magnetic storms-and is filled with beautiful and stunning imagery from photographers and satellites.