The previews were chosen by the publishers & are three of the four that are shown along with the book on sites like Amazon, which is why I've included them here too.

With a gulp, I've spotted a schoolboy error in the text for the other preview chapter, about Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 😬

Checking back, I see that I made the mistake originally, it got emphasised in the editing, & I missed it when checking the galleys.

Ugh 😭

Will have to fix in next edition – mea culpa 🙇‍♂️

Needless to say, despite what the text says, the first cometary flyby wasn't by Giotto at Comet 1P/Halley in 1986.

Indeed, the Soviet Vega-1 and Vega-2, along with the Japanese Sakigake & Susei all flew past Halley a few days before Giotto, although the latter flew much closer.

But more importantly, the NASA International Cometary Explorer (ICE), formerly ISEE-3, flew past Comet Giacobini-Zinner six months earlier, in September 1985.

Again, my apologies – I'm mortified.

The book is part of Emons' tour guide series "111 Places" & follows a similar format, describing what you'd see if you visited the location, the address, directions for how to reach it, & a tip for something else interesting to visit nearby.

That explains the writing style, & of course for many of the 111 locations, actually visiting makes no sense at all 😬

But hopefully the style helps make the book more engaging, plus I've used the "formulaic" parts to sneak in additional geeky details 😉

Most of the 111 images are sourced from space agency missions like Hubble, JWST, Voyager, Rosetta, MESSENGER, Hope, Apollo, Akatsuki, MEX, Solar Orbiter, MRO & so on.

However, many are due to the very talented community of image processors who worked from the raw data, & I'm very grateful to them for allowing me to use their work.

Likewise the amateur astronomers whose lovely images I've included.

And around 15 are my own work, either from space mission data as above, or photographs.