What We See In The Stars by Kelsey Oseid

A richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about constellations, planets, comets, the northern lights, and more.
Combining art, mythology, and science, What We See in the Stars gives readers a tour of the night sky through more than 100 magical pieces of original art, all accompanied by text that weaves related legends and lore with scientific facts. This beautifully packaged book covers the night sky's most brilliant features--such as the constellations, the moon, the bright stars, and the visible planets--as well as less familiar celestial phenomena like the outer planets, nebulae, and deep space. Adults seeking to recapture the magic of youthful stargazing, younger readers interested in learning about natural history and outer space, and those who appreciate beautiful, hand-painted art will all delight in this charming book. @goodreads 

This little book is awesome! I love the hardback, the pictures on the front and the back! Gah, just everything. 

A little excerpt taken from part of the introduction. 

We once imagined the sky to be something like a hollow, sperical shell surrounding the Earth, and stars as bright points on that shell. When we began to notice that some of those bright points took different paths across the sky than the rest, we altered our explanations: the Earth was encased not by one sphere, but by many perfectly transparent crystal spheres nested inside one another and sinning in different directions. Onto these, we mapped constellations, the sun, and the moon. 

Contents: 

1. the Constellations
2. the Milky Way
3. the Moon
4. the Sun 
5. the planets
6. Asteroids, Comets & Meteors
7. Deep Space


This book may be small but it's jam packed with wonderful illustrations and a quite a bit of information on all of the things in the different contents sections. My favorites being the Moon, the Constellations and the planets. 

 I'm going to leave you with a few illustrations from the book but they don't do the whole book justice. It is filled with tons of beautiful pictures and I loved the layout and pictures related to our planets. 

I think everyone that loves anything about space will enjoy this book. 

  
 

* I would like to thank BloggingForBooks for a copy of this wonderful book.