Our position in space may be one of the countless, or it could be as unique as the rarest gemstone. Life and knowing how to live it is a blessing beyond compare.

Lost in space? Confused among quasars and superclusters? You hold in your hands the best pocket guide to the universe available on the planet, filled with exciting data and useful diagrams.

Sit back and let Matt Tweddle, mathematician, producer, and illustrator, take you on a journey through space and time. Travel through a black hole. Discover bizarre relativistic distortions of spacetime. Fly to the outer limits of our knowledge. You will never look at the night sky the same way again.