The Visual Guides series answers the most important questions on topics that fascinate everyone through a series of videos and animations: weather, the human body, the Earth, the universe and plants. It provides images of natural phenomena and explanations of fundamental concepts, and features the very latest discoveries in these areas.

Table of Contents

• THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
• The Big Bang
• The size of the Universe
• The galaxies
• Galactic clusters
• The Milky Way
• Active galaxies
• THE STARS
• Origin and classification of stars
• Low-mass stars
• Massive stars
• Black holes
• Star clusters
• The constellations
• THE SOLAR SYSTEM
• The structure of the solar system
• The Sun
• The asteroids
• Comets
• THE PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• EARTH AND THE MOON
• The origin of Earth
• The magnetosphere
• Earth's atmosphere
• Geographical and celestial coordinates
• The seasons
• The Moon
• Eclipses
• Meteorites
• ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION
• The electromagnetic spectrum
• Telescopes
• Astronomical observatories
• The Hubble Space Telescope
• Radio telescopes
• Extrasolar planets
• SPACE EXPLORATION
• Surrounding Earth
• Space probes
• Exploration of the Moon
• Exploration of Mars
• Exploration of the Solar System