Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2025 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year’s eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known.
Articles for the 2025 edition include:
- Recent Advances in Astronomy by Rod Hine
- Recent Advances in Solar System Exploration by Peter Rea
- Skies over Ancient America: Mystical Mounds and Landmarks of the Prehistoric Americas by P. Clay Sherrod
- Astrophysicist Cecilia Helena Payne and Professor H. N. Russell by David M. Harland
- The Astronomers’ Stars: The Terrible Twos by Lynne Marie Stockman
- Eta Carinae: A Chance Encounter and Journey of Discovery by Peter Rea
- Saturn at its Equinox: A History of Ring-Plane Crossings from 1612 to 2025 by David Harper
- A History of Observatory Designs: Before the Telescope by Katrin Raynor
- Signals from the Magnetosphere by John Vetterlein
- How to Read a Scientific Paper by David Harper
- Small Stars by John McCue
This iconic publication made its first appearance way back in 1962, shortly after the dawning of the Space Age. Now well into its seventh decade of production, the Yearbook continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy and who has a desire to extend their knowledge of the Universe and the wonders to which it plays host. The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the bookshelf of all stargazers and watchers of the skies.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2025 was released on 30 August 2024. It can be ordered directly from the publisher Pen & Sword Books Limited. Readers in the United States and Canada should order their copies from Casemate IPM. It is also available at Amazon and at other online book retailers.