Breathtaking, otherworldly beauty! So many hours of my youth were spent pouring over space books, studying pictures, relishing in the complexity of space and dreaming of the day I could actually go myself as an astronaut. Sadly, this never came to pass, but with this book in my hands, that loss may have been lessened. These images are so profoundly vivid and beautiful, it took me hours to read through this book because I would sit and stare and ponder over so many of the pictures. The provided descriptions were very helpful and just served to remind me how vast, beautiful and complex space truly is. Highly recommended for all lovers of space!
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own and freely given.

**I received and voluntarily read an e-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.**

The photos found in this book are absolutely breathtaking and make you feel tinier than a speck in a huge universe. Deep space photography is one of if not the most difficult kind of photography there is.

The text might be a little dense for many people who came to look at pretty pictures, but I imagine that anyone other than science/space lovers picked this book more for the photos than the text.

Overall, this would make a beautiful coffee table book, or a great gift for astronomy lovers.

Absolutely stunning pictures, this book is an absolutely good book for the coffeetable.A wonderful collection of pictures and information. The depth of information in the book was also very well. I enjoyed the book a lot because I saw things I never saw before.

This guide to outer space had the photographic brilliance I expected from these publishers, but a text content – and level – that was not what I predicted. Right from the off, with the quick little introduction, there were too many numbers for some potential readers, and the depth of information only continued. This could well be a good thing or not – the captions making up the core of the script were much lengthier than is the norm for these books, but seemed geared to those in the know. There was no easy way in for the newcomer to know what kind of nebula was what, and I lost track of how many new-to-me classification systems for these things there were, beyond the common Messier and NGC numbers.

The good thing is that many a space scientist, who would be able to absorb all the text in the blink of an eye, would also love to have on hand the visuals. These images are, of course, stunning – and even it's a false colour representation of something in two bands of infra-red, and not the more literal imagery from the Hubble, they each look a peach. So this might well need an A-level in space science (would that such a thing existed), but it still remains something a lot of people could get a lot out of, even if it's just that this is something pretty to browse and boggle over, especially in its current large hardback form.

Beautiful coffee table book with otherworldly (literally and figuratively) photos. It makes you feel amazed by the scale and mystery of the Universe, and by the astonishing power of modern technology. All pictures are accompanied by detailed descriptions, lifting the veil of their secrecy.

A great companion book for many pop-science titles, like the recent "Meteorite" by Tim Gregory.

Thanks to the publisher, Amber Books, and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy of this book.

My family is very much into astronomy and this book did not disappoint. The pictures are amazingly detailed, and the tidbits of information are very interesting as well. This would make the perfect gift for anyone into astronomy or photography in general.