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This book earns a weak recommendation for me. It provides a variety of content to include scientific facts, geography, its history in culture, moon-gazing tips, and much, much more. Certain parts were odd to me, like the collection of poetry. I‘ll admit, I‘ve already forgotten most of the facts. But, tonight when on trash duty, I looked up into the sky and it was like truly noticing an old friend that I‘ve taken for granted for much too long.

She's mostly gone
Some other place

I'm getting by
In other ways

Everything it whispered in my ear
Is coming true

This reviewer‘s post is better than the book. Striking points regarding the inaccuracies related to society and culture. This: “the tools of tomorrow have disturbingly been…byproducts of violence.” I appreciate the reviewer‘s “Try this instead” section at the end of the review.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7434556160

A quick read. Very informative and interesting. A very accessible method of learning the very basics of astronomy and astrophysics.

I started this one before the total eclipse in April of this year. I lost interest after that and just picked it up. It was definitely interesting, especially the history of how eclipses were used to help map the size and shape of the world centuries ago. It's my own fault for losing interest after seeing the eclipse. Definitely recommend if you'd like to learn more about eclipses.

“Earth is part of the solar system.“

This book was published in 2020. This book provides a lot of information on the planets in our solar system. This book can be good to introduce space before the unit. Many students are interested in space and want to learn more about it. This book could become a resource to those students.

I thought this book was very informational and gave a detailed description of all the different types of planets in our solar system.

I love astronomy 🤩