All the Secrets of the Universe Large Type edition

This is a large print volume that provides the general public with an overview of our knowledge of the Universe today. It provides an historical perspective on the progression of our acquisition of evidence about the Universe within which we reside. There are no photographs, but there is an abstract illustration for each chapter. The contents include chapters on: observations of the sky; Newton's Laws of Motion; gravity; light; optics; telescopes; matter and radiation; stars; structure of stars; birth of stars; interstellar medium; life cycle of stars; death of stars; Theory of Relativity; black holes; Milky Way Galaxy; galaxies; active galaxies; clusters of galaxies; large scale structure; cosmology; Big Bang Theory; fate of the Universe; and the search for life in the universe.