Mark Antony Garlick
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 304
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This beautifully illustrates atlas takes you on a journey of discovery from our home planet, through the Solar System, and on to the Milky Way and beyond. This ultimate guide to the universe combines hundreds of specially commissioned maps, diagrams and illustrations, with the very latest colour photographs of the cosmos. It begins at home with a survey of planet Earth and the Moon. Then, chapter by chapter, ever-larger regions of the cosmos are considered until, ultimately, the entire visible universe is revealed. At each stage charting diagrams and maps are provided to make sense of the vast scale of the universe. The planets and many of the satellites of the Solar System are shown in beautifully rendered maps of exquisite detail. The book also offers a series of expertly crafted seasonal star maps for both the southern and northern hemispheres, and a complete cartographic survey of the constellations that will enable the enthusiast to trace the patterns in the sky that have fascinated humankind for thousands of years.