The Stars Author:Willy Kruse, Wilhelm Dieckvoss This book tells how astronomers, with starlight as their only guide, have gathered a vast store of knowledge about stars 25,000 billion miles away---and what this knowledge means to us. — With over 100 illustrations, the authors describe how to find a star's speed, position, and temperature through a telescope; how stars send light; the origins o... more »f galaxies, clusters, and nebulae.« less