"Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space... You climb in, blast into orbit, fly through the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? First and most obviously, stars and planets. Some are familiar from our own backyard: yellow suns, rocky planets like Mars, gas and ice giants like Jupiter and Neptune. But there are many more: giant stars, red and white dwarfs, super-Earths and hot Jupiters. Elsewhere are swirling clouds of dust giving birth to stars, and infinitely dense regions of space-time called black holes... *A Journey Through the Universe* is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. As for the end of the journey - nobody knows. But getting there will be fun."
For young readers
Book data: Open Library