Serge Brunier

Serge Brunier (born 1958 in Paris) is a French photographer, reporter and author who specializes in popular representations for astronomy.

Work and objectives

Brunier collaborates with the magazine Science et Vie and is a columnist at the radio station France Info. He has written numerous illustrated works on astronomy.

He touts a solar system exploration by unmanned space probes, but fights against human spaceflight.

In his illustrated book travel through the solar system he describes the situation on the planet from the perspective of a hypothetical experiencer.

Brunier has in the Atacama a Panoramic view of the Milky Way made ​​in two years of work, on his first show at the casino in Monte Carlo was to be seen in September 2006 and has been shown with their hundreds of millions of pixels 2007 at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris on 144 square meters.

The International Astronomical Union has the asteroid named in recognition of services rendered to Bruniers the spread of Sciences 10943 after him.

Awards

Works

  • Nébuleuses et galaxy, atlas du ciel profond. Dunod, 1981
  • Les Planètes. Bordas, Paris, 1982 ( with André de Clayeux )
  • Architecture de l' Univers. Bordas, Paris 1985
  • Astronomy du ciel profond. Dunod, 1988
  • Eclipses - Les rendez -vous célestes. Bordas, Paris 1999 ( with Jean -Pierre Luminet )
  • Voyage dans le système solaire. Bordas, Paris 2000
  • Le grand atlas des étoiles. Bordas, Paris 2001
  • Les grands observatoires du monde. Bordas, Paris 2002 ( with Anne -Marie Lagrange )
  • Le grand atlas de la Lune. Éditions Larousse, Paris 2004 ( with Thierry Legault )
  • Atacama - Désert d'altitude. Nathan, Paris 2004
  • Mars Observer, Éditions Larousse, Paris 2005
  • Impasse de l' espace - À quoi servent les astronautes. Éditions du Seuil, 2006
  • Voyage dans l' infini du ciel étoilé. Nathan, Paris 2006

German

  • Journey through the solar system. Westermann, Braunschweig 1994
  • The Universe. A journey into infinity. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998
  • Departure into space. People conquer space. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001
  • On the limits of the universe. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007
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