This superb guide explores every corner of Earth's planetary neighborhood, from the fiery sun at its center to the dark, icy realm where interstellar space begins. It's a fascinating observation of the solar system as we know it today and a forecast of what to expect in the future.

From breathtaking full-colour photographs to explanatory diagrams and expert essays, fascinating sidebars, and informative fact boxes, The New Solar System is an easy-to-use, solidly reliable reference, and a visually stunning, invitingly browsable volume guaranteed to fire the imagination of even the most casual reader.

Patricia Daniels has written extensively about history and science, including National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Constellations and National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space.

Robert Burnham is a science writer at the Mars Space Flight Facility of Arizona State University. He is the author of Great Comets and the Reader's Digest Children's Atlas of the Universe.

• Hardcover
• 224 pages; 160 colour illustrations
• 11" x 9"
• © 2009