Universe - Robert Dinwiddie

I was given 'Universe' as a present from my brother on my 20th birthday. The front of the book has a beautiful picture of NGC1850, located in the southern hemisphere galaxy the large megallanic cloud. This is a cluster of stars thats type is not found in our own galaxy, in that it has the composition of a globular cluster (very compact with a high number of stars) but all globulars in our galaxy contain old stars while this cluster contains young fledgeling stars. On the reverse there is a spellbinding picture of our closest galactic neighbour M31 with the inspirational quote from Einstein "Watch the stars and from them learn" here here old ...  Read the complete review

Astronomy is a science of extremes. The biggest, fastest, densest, hottest, coldest, and furthest away objects can all be examined by astronomers. The scale of the universe is vast, almost beyond human comprehension, and the range of objects found within the universe almost infinite. Because of this vast scale, it would be perhaps, foolhardy for a publisher to try and encompass the whole of the universe in one book. Well, Dorling Kindersley has tried with "Universe". The book has a good chance of succeeding since its editor is none other than Professor Martin Rees, the current Astronomer Royal and an accomplished author and publiciser of ...  Read the complete review