A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know-and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis...

Offers young readers a close look at the planets and other celestial bodies of the Universe, explains their relationships to each other and describes the equipment scientists have developed to study these phenomena