13 top astronomy and space gifts

Are you on the hunt for a gift for the astronomy or space fan in you life? Get inspired with our gift guide, featuring some of the best bits of astro gear that caught our attention in 2019.

These 10 two-tone pencils are decorated with NASA images of deep space. Use them to draw the purple and pink Butterfly Nebula or the black and white clouds of the Milky Way.

• Price £9.10
• Supplier Wordery
• www.wordery.com

A 54-card deck featuring the phases of the Moon, lunar eclipses and Apollo lunar modules.

• Price £10.99
• Supplier Royal Museums Greenwich
• shop.rmg.co.uk

A collection of 50 postcards featuring Chris Wormell’s illustrations of space, feature int eSun and the Solar System to the Milky Way and beyond.

• Price £12.99
• Supplier Waterstone’s
• www.waterstones.com

Take your love of astronomy to the shops with a tote bag decorated with a chart of the night sky and Milky Way. 100 per cent natural cotton.

• Price £13.99
• Supplier Present Indicative
• Tel 01189 588586
• www.presentindicative.com

Assemble your own star globe to see the stars every night. The stylish black and white design looks good during the day, then at night the stars glow in the dark.

• Price £17.95
• Supplier The Letteroom
• Tel 01264 355488
• www.theletteroom.com

Bring the cosmos to your coffee table. This set of nine coasters features a stylised and colourful depiction of each of the eight main planets and Pluto.

• Price £20
• Supplier Red Candy
• Tel 0121 224 7728
• www.redcandy.co.uk

Ideal for the young or young at heart, this kit has everything you need to create your own paper rockets. Designs include the Vostok K, the Space Shuttle and a 60cm-tall Saturn V.

• Price £22.50
• Supplier Lawrence King
• Tel 020 7841 6900
• www.laurenceking.com

2019 marked 50 years since humans first set foot on the surface of the Moon. Celebrate with this new edition of the classic Haynes Apollo 11 manual.

• Price £22.99
• Supplier Haynes
• www.haynes.com

Even if the rain rolls in, you can still keep stargazing thanks to this umbrella, decorated with the image of a spiral galaxy.

• Price £23.57
• Supplier ecrater
• www.ecrater.co.uk

One of these stemless wine glasses is decorated with a chart of the winter sky, while the other depicts summer’s stars. Bottom’s up!

• Price $29.95
• Supplier Cognitive Surplus
• www.cognitive-surplus.com

Keep track of planetary motions with this armillary sphere kit, made from concentric cardboard rings and foam rubber planets.

• Price £31.14
• Supplier AstroMedia
• Tel 07864 912372
• www.astromediashop.co.uk

Take a safe look at the Sun using these 6×30 ‘SUNoculars’. Their small size makes them perfect for travel, allowing you to keep watch for sunspots from across the globe.

• Price £44
• Supplier Harrison Telescopes
• Tel 01322 403407
• www.harrisontelescopes.co.uk

These 3cm-diameter, 3D-printed worlds accurately depict the surface colouration of all eight planets plus Pluto.

• Price $129 (£93.11*)
• Supplier Astro Reality
• www.astroreality.com