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By Nick Kanas

In fresh years, there was elevated curiosity in our sunlight procedure. This has been brought on through the launching of huge orbiting telescopes and area probes, the invention of recent planetary moons and heavenly our bodies that orbit the sunlight, and the demotion of Pluto as a planet. in a single new release, our position within the heavens has been challenged, yet this isn't strange. all through heritage, there were a few such global perspectives. at first, Earth used to be visible because the middle of the universe and surrounded by means of orbiting planets and stars. Then the solar turned the guts of the cosmos. ultimately, there has been no heart, only a immense array of galaxies with person stars, a few with their very own retinue of planets. This allowed our sunlight method to be differentiated from deep-sky items, however it didn’t lose its secret as a growing number of extraordinary our bodies have been found inside of its boundaries.

This e-book tells the fascinating tale of ways now we have conceptualized and mapped our sunlight method from antiquity to fashionable occasions. as well as the entire textual content, this tale is made extra bright by:

• 162 sunlight procedure and planetary maps, diagrams, and pictures (over a 3rd in color);

• direct charges and figures from antiquarian, modern, and house Age files and pictures that permit the reader to trace how people have seen the sunlight procedure from unique sources;

• 9 tables that examine many of the international perspectives, relative planetary positions, and parts of the sunlight method with every one other.

Broad in scope and wealthy in imagery, this publication will draw the reader into the tale of our sun method and the way it's been mapped because the starting of recorded time.

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