Astronomy, for what? is the latest book by the immensely renowned and multi-award-winning astronomer Julieta Fierro, who has dedicated a good part of her professional life to making some of the most fascinating and mysterious secrets of the stars and the universe accessible to all kinds of public. All of this with a style that, while being serious and rigorous, is presented in a simple and didactic way, with writing that is accessible to those readers who are not experts in the subject.

In this book, Julieta Fierro guides readers through a fascinating journey that deals with narrating the astronomical origin of calendars, as well as the prospects of finding extraterrestrial life or establishing colonies on the Moon or Mars in the future, or essential topics for astrophysics, such as black holes or those mysterious particles called neutrinos. Each chapter includes dazzling images of the universe, as well as tables and illustrations that visually complement the writing, to form a small, great treatise on contemporary astronomy.

The texts are accompanied by poems created expressly for this work by the multi-award-winning poet Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, who in her verses reveals, among other things, how the wonders and secrets of the universe relate to our realities and daily existence. The stars and planets are both the subject of theoretical research and presences that, through her poems, come to full life in our personal firmament.