Magnificent Universe
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780684845944
Subjects: Popular astronomy; Science/Mathematics; Universe; Science; Astronomy - Universe; Science / Astronomy; Astronomy - General; Astronomy; Cosmology; Pictorial works
First sentence: One by one they race around the Sun: Mercury, swiftest of all, its surface scarred by countless craters:
Description: "With more than one hundred full-color portraits, Magnificent Universe allows you to experience for yourself the beauty of the planets, moons, comets, constellations, stellar nurseries, red giants, supernovae, spiral galaxies, and quasars - all the way to the edge of space and time.".

"Now, after years of meticulous research, Dr. Croswell has brought together outstanding photographs from leading observatories around the world as well as from an armada of interplanetary spacecraft. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope have been digitally reprocessed to create a degree of definition never seen before. With these photographs, he guides us through chapters on the planets, the stars, the galaxies, and the universe.

Unique color-coded tables on the planets, moons, brightest stars, nearest stars, and Local Group galaxies appear in a useful reference section, along with a glossary and suggestions for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.