This fully updated 2013 edition of this essential guide features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a special picture section featuring some of the most important astronomical events of the year. It also includes a month-by-month guide to events in the coming year: planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae and phases of the moon.

Discover the secrets of astronomy, from the objects that make up our solar system to the strange bodies at the very edges of the known universe; unlock the mysteries of the stars and discover what information telescopes are beaming back to Earth. ASTRONOMY is a compelling guide to a community of characters who keep the universe in motion.