• Publication: Asimov on AstronomyPublication Record # 406335
• Author: Isaac Asimov
• Date: 1979-00-00
• ISBN: 0-517-27924-X [978-0-517-27924-3]
• Publisher: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers
• Pages: xiii+238
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Cover: Asimov on Astronomy (1974) • by NASA
• Notes:

  • Information from Bonanza Books 4th printing
  • Stated "BONANZA 1979 EDITION"
  • No date other than year
  • Cover artist credit per rear inside dust jacket flap. Picture of Saturn (19 February 1973) credited as a NASA photo by Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona.
  • Collects essays originally published in F&SF. Per the introduction, the bodies of the essays have not been modified from the F&SF versions, but footnotes were added.
  • Also includes 40 astronomical photographs to which Asimov has written (per the introduction) captions (consisting of multiple paragraphs) adding information relevant to the essay. These have not been listed.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 79-14202

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Introduction (Asimov on Astronomy) • [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] • (1974) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • Time and Tide • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 14 • The Rocks of Damocles • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 29 • Harmony in Heaven • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1965) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 44 • The Trojan Hearse • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 62 • By Jove! • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 75 • Superficially Speaking • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 89 • Round and Round and ... • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 101 • Beyond Pluto • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 115 • Just Mooning Around • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 127 • Steppingstones to the Stars • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Stepping-Stones to the Stars)
• 141 • The Planet of the Double Sun • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1959) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 153 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 165 • Heaven on Earth • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 176 • The Flickering Yardstick • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 192 • The Sight of Home • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 205 • The Black of Night • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 218 • A Galaxy at a Time • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov