Michael Carlowicz, a science writer/editor affiliated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has a photo-essay book focused on the only star we can study up close and the only one that has a real impact on our lives on Earth. He says: "Our voyage to The Sun began nine years ago when Steele (Hill) and I shared an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Day after day, we traded ideas and images that could engage and educate the public about our nearest star. We watched the Sun and the aurora alongside the scientists and investigators of SOHO and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program, learning as they learned. It was a rare privilege for a couple of liberal arts majors to be part of the greatest solar-terrestrial observing campaign in history. We collaborated with scientists on posters, Web sites, press conferences, and educational products, but none of them did justice to the amazing new (and archival) views of the Sun we found. Hence this book, which attempts to bring together the full breadth of solar imagery from ancient cultural sites to satellite-era close-ups." Carlowicz can be reached at 508-477-1450 or mikewicz@nasw.org. The book's publicist is Lisa Sherman-Cohen at 212 519-1202 or lsherman@hnabooks.com.