The best astronomy book I've ever bought

Got it today. It's called "Universe" and is a Dorling Kindersley book.

It's wonderfully illustrated with literally hundreds of colour photos and illustrations. Includes the recent photos from Titan, so is very up-to-date. Very impressive. 500 pages, big hardback book. Looks great on the coffee table!

uk.dk.com/static/html/features/universe/intro.html

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Hi Anthony - how much did you pay for it in euro?

The DK books always seem to have that something extra as regards presentation. I was tempted to get their world atlas a while back - it looke fabulous and the content seemed good at a glance.

How do you find Universe in terms of content accuracy? I see that it pretty well up to date!

Cheers

Dave

Dave,

I paid 20 euro through one of those book people who call into our office with special offers, but I think RRP is about 60 euro (it's marked £30 STG on the dust jacket).

The editor is Martin Rees, and the Night Sky editor is Ian Ridpath, so I'd say its pretty accurate . . .