Colin Stuart is an astronomy journalist and author. He has written for the Guardian, European Space Agency and New Scientist, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has also recently had an asteroid named after him. He is the author of 13 Journeys Through Space and Time: Christmas Lectures From the Royal Institution, published by Michael O'Mara Books in 2016.
If you're new to the subject... or are trying to spark the astronomy bug in someone else, then this volume is an excellent place to begin your adventure * BBC Sky at Night Magazine * This book is a goldmine for anyone seeking to understand the present state of astronomical science, cosmology and how we arrived here from the earliest wonderings of our ancestors about the things they saw in the sky * Astronomy Now *