Space. Big Children's Encyclopedia

Attention! If you want to learn everything most exciting about our Universe, quickly open this book! It will be interesting! On Earth, you will admire the northern lights, observe meteor showers and meteorite rains, see majestic solar and lunar eclipses. Then, you will visit Mercury, Mars, Venus, and other planets of the Solar System! And going beyond its boundaries, you will journey to the stars, witness the mysterious processes of their birth and decay, see what is inside black holes, and thanks to the Orion Nebula, even glance into the past! You will race through the Milky Way and reach not only the neighboring galaxies but also the center of the Virgo cluster, and also watch the mergers of cosmic systems! So much extraordinary lies ahead, so what are you waiting for? Key to start — and… let's go!