Galaxy: Exploring the Milky Way

by Stuart Clark

Look into the hazy river of stars that flows across the night sky and you gaze into the center of our Galaxy. Over two hundred and fifty thousand trillion miles away, amid the bright star clouds of Sagittarius, lies the point about which the Milky Way's 200 billion stars all revolve. Such distances, such numbers, such a view defy the imagination. Yet the incredible advances of modern science have built a compelling portrait of our cosmic habitat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435109384
• ISBN13: 9781435109384
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Fall River Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 6.00 lbs.