{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-space-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Space (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Space is a large-format coffee table book about space, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. It begins in our own night sky and goes on past the Moon and the planets to the stars and the galaxies beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with the night sky: the Milky Way rising beside tall rock towers, and the zodiacal light, a faint cone of soft white glow above a flat desert. Then the aurora: green curtains over a frozen lake beside snowy spruce, rays meeting high overhead in green and violet, and a deep red aurora above a band of green over snowy peaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Moon: a thin crescent, the rest of its disc grey with earthshine, craters seen close along the line between day and night, and the Moon glowing coppery red in a total eclipse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the rocky planets: grey, cratered Mercury, rust-red Mars with its white polar cap, and a small pale Sun setting in a blue glow over a rocky plain on Mars. Then the giants: the cream and brown bands of Jupiter and its great red oval, the rings of Saturn seen close, jets of icy spray rising from a small white moon, and the pale cyan globe of Uranus and the soft blue of Neptune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen comets, meteors and asteroids: a comet with a curving pale yellow tail and a straight blue one, meteors streaking out from one point above dark hills, a lumpy grey asteroid, and a polished slice of iron meteorite crossed by interlocking crystals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen where stars are born: a cloud of red and pink gas lit by blue-white stars, a single tall, leaning dark column of dust, its tip lit gold, and a glowing disc of dust and gas broken by dark rings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, the galaxies: a spiral seen face-on, its arms of blue stars and pink glowing clouds winding out from a golden core, a barred spiral, a thin edge-on disc split by dark dust, spiral galaxies colliding and pulled out of shape, countless faint galaxies of many shapes and colours, and a lopsided ring galaxy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about space rather than about the pictures: why the Sun and the Moon look almost the same size in the sky, why Venus looks largest as a thin crescent, how far apart the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter really lie, and that planetary nebulae, despite their name, have nothing to do with planets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68148166492464,"sku":"9671456004303","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004303.jpg?v=1792626749","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-space-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}