Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond

Filled with lavish illustrations, this book is a grand tour of the universe. Three ever widening domains are presented—the planets, the stars, and the large scale universe itself—each including the ones before it and extending outward.

The tour starts close to home within the first domain, our own solar system. There is a tremendous variety here, from the sun scorched rocks of Mercury to the icy vastness of the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto. We see the sun and planets born from the collapse …