📚 Astrophysics

Books with astrophysics on their catalogue record, first published between 1903 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject astrophysics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,656 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	1988	120
	21st Century Astronomy	Jeffrey S. Hester	2002	46
	Horizons	Michael A. Seeds	1981	30
	The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking	1998	28
	Astrophysical techniques	C. R. Kitchin	1984	22
	The physical universe	Konrad Bates Krauskopf	1960	15
	Astrophysics for People in a Hurry	Neil deGrasse Tyson	2017	15
	Astronomy	Michael A. Seeds	1998	12
	Letters from an Astrophysicist	Neil deGrasse Tyson	2019	12
	Mathematical problems of radiative equilibrium	Eberhard Hopf	1934	11
	Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics	L. Goldberg	1972	11
	Handbook of space astronomy and astrophysics	Martin V. Zombeck	1982	11
	The Astrophysical journal	American Astronomical Society	1903	10
	The Internal Constitution of the Stars	Arthur Stanley Eddington	1926	10
	A first course in general relativity	Bernard F. Schutz	1985	10
	Einstein's universe	Nigel Calder	1979	9
	Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics	Erika Böhm-Vitense	1990	9
	Stephen Hawking	Michael White	1992	9
	Astrophysics of Planet Formation	Philip J. Armitage	2009	9
	High Energy Astrophysics	Malcolm S. Longair	1988	8
	Strange Angel	George Pendle	2005	8
	Stellar interiors	Carl J. Hansen	1994	7
	The universe in your hand	Christophe Galfard	2001	7
	The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium	A. G. G. M. Tielens	2005	7
	Alone in the Universe	John R. Gribbin	2011	7
	Calculating the cosmos	Ian Stewart	2016	7
	Our Universe	Jo Dunkley	2019	7
	The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)	Katie Mack	2020	7
	Book of Universes	John D. Barrow	2011	6
	Modern astrophysics ..	Herbert Dingle	1924	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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