The cover offers: “Watching the Universe outside your window”, as a hook to catch your interest. I loved the images in this book: from NASA, The Hubble Telescope, constellation drawings, and so much more. The Contents are broken up into four sections ( with 9+ entries in each section) : Watching the night sky, Searching for the stars, Discovering amazing planets, and Galaxies and the Universe.

I did enjoy this book in small sections at a time. My finite mind would just begin to wrap itself around one three dimensional idea when another one was introduced into the equation of space. I found out quickly,  I am not ready to be an astronaut and travel off of this planet! I will need more than this book to help me remember and understand all of the wonderful celestial bodies in this book: nebula, quasars, nebula, globular cluster, black holes, blazar, cepheid , asterism, and more, which often we are made aware of in science fiction accounts, but in fact do exist.

The photos whether taken from space looking further into space or taken  from earth looking up into the night sky, they are breath taking!

Round star maps were presented from different locations on earth, not just from the northern hemisphere.  The constellations presented are viewed from flat star maps, viewed with the unaided eye from earth, viewed with telescopes in part and in whole, and small tidbits of their ancient names / origins.

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