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Title: Good book, still relevant
Review: I agree with the other reviewers, this is good book. It's a well written introduction to stars of our galaxy and does a good job explaining how the structure of the galaxy came to be understood. I've read a lot of astronomy books, and I leaned a lot from this book. It covers the less flashy side of astronomy, yet it's oriented to the general reader not the amateur astronomer.A key question in 2007, of course, is whether this book published in 1995 is now too out of date to buy. My answer is buy it. The last few chapters, which discuss topics like the Hubble constant, are now clearly dated, but history is history, and as far as I can tell (doing some cross-checking on Wikipedia) the core of the book, its discussion of Milky Way stars, holds up well.
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