Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond

Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond is the most recent book by American physicist James Trefil. It was released in 2012 and is his 17th book.

The book contains 3 different parts: "The Solar System", "The Galaxy", and "The Universe".

Reception

Media critic Gordon S. Miller said that he "highly recommend[s] Space Atlas. The star charts, the stunning photography, and the brilliant rendering by artists and computers were a joy to look at and will be a main reason to revisit the book. In addition, Trefil, the Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, engages the reader with informative text that is accessible to the lay person. He also highlights scientists whose discoveries helped inform this book and our knowledge of the universe, such as Nicolaus Copernicus, who “produced the first serious model of the solar system in which the sun was at the center and Earth moved in orbit,” and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the signals of pulsars."^[1]

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