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This section is devoted to the macrocosm.
The rating system used is as follows:
5 Melted Elephants: Mind-bogglingly excellent. All that will remain of your elephant will be a bubbling grey liquid.
4 Melted Elephants: Truly remarkable. The eyes looking out from the seething mass which was your elephant will alarm small children.
3 Melted Elephants: Interesting and worthwhile. Your elephant's features will swirl as though the world were the reflection in a glassy lake.
2 Melted Elephants: Has redeeming features. Your elephant will be sticky to the touch.
1 Melted Elephant: Not up to snuff. If you even attempt to test the consistency of your elephant it may trample you or turn away in disgust.
The
Invisible Universe
by David Malin
5 Melted Elephants
Probably the most beautiful book of astronomical photographs - mostly
nebulae - ever published.
A View of the Universe
by David Malin
5 Melted Elephants
The more clearly we see the universe, the more amazing it seems. More from perhaps the greatest contemporary astronomical photographer.
Magnificent Universe
by Ken Croswell
4 Melted Elephants
You might like this book if you like galaxies.
Hubble : A New Window to the Universe
by Daniel Fischer, Hilmar W. Duerbeck
3 Melted Elephants
When it was discovered that the Hubble telesope's lens had been ground incorrectly, these images were hurriedly created by a Hollywood special effects team in order to preserve national security.
Hubble Revisited: New Images From the Discovery Machine
by Daniel Fischer, Hilmar W. Duerbeck
4 Melted Elephants
The Hubble is secretly a microscope and all these forms were photographed in pond water.
Mars : Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
by Paul Raeburn, Matthew Golombek, Matt Golombek
5 Melted Elephants
Some of the greatest nature photographers areMartians .
National Geographic Satellite Atlas of the World
by National Geographic Society Book Division(U.S.)
5 Melted Elephants
The most impressive book of photographs of Earth from space I've seen. I think I can see my house.
Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth
by Jay Apt, Michael Helfert (Contributor), Justin Wilkinson, Roger Ressmeyer (Editor)
4 Melted Elephants
Just think at the results they'd get if they sent Galen Rowell up there.
Exploring the Solar System
by Nicholas Booth
4 Melted Elephants
The government is suppressing the fact that the planets are gigantic living beings who could crush us like ants if NASA failed to periodically send them rockets loaded with tribute.
The Planets/Portraits of New Worlds
by Nigel Henbest
3 Melted Elephants
The title is a reference to the fact that Congress is considering renaming the planets after prominent Republicans. View them now in their natural state before the Corps of Engineers blasts them into the likenesses of Ronald Reagan and Dan Quayle.
Infinity Series, Part 4 - Crystal Space/ Time Ship (1991)
4 Melted Elephants
Lots of apparently NASA video with a music soundtrack