The Sun - Tapa dura

Awe-inspiring and familiar, comforting yet sometimes frightening, the sun is the center around which all life revolves. Now, an expert on solar images teams up with a noted science writer to present a photographic book devoted entirely to the sun, illustrating the star we know and revealing recent discoveries.Dramatic images from photographers, observatories, and satellites are organized as viewed first from the ground, then from earth's atmosphere and the edge of space, and finally from the surface of the sun itself. Through these images and a clear, precise text, the authors explore the intricate dance between the sun and earth, examining this relationship in both mythical and scientific terms. Perhaps best of all, the book's compact, square size makes The Sun as inviting to hold as it is to read.

Michael Carlowicz is a science writer and author of Storms from the Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather (The Joseph Henry Press, 2002). He is currently a science writer and editor for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Steele Hill has served as the media specialist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission since its first year of operation in 1996. Through his work at NASA, he is more familiar with the images from SOHO and other solar missions than anyone on the planet.