Explore some big questions about the universe to learn how it was formed, its size, and how its far reaches can be explored. Includes NASA footage and hands-on investigations.
Cosmologist Alex Vilenkin draws on emerging scientific research to offer a new theory about the creation, expansion, and eventual demise of the universe.
Reviews the history of space observation, presenting photographs and drawings of stars, planets, galaxies, and other space phenomena taken over a period ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the advent of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Tells the story of how a sea of superhot gas, expanding out of the Big Bang and cooling as it did, gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and people. Illustrated with photographs of deep space.
An illustrated introduction to the universe and how it works, and includes sixty hands-on activities to reinforce the scientific principles and theories.
