The starry sky has long been beckoning and attracting us. This is not surprising, because we are children of the Universe in the most literal sense. Our planet, which seems so huge, is quite small on a cosmic scale. The Earth is part of the Solar System - a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy, which, in turn, is part of a huge Universe with an unimaginable number of galaxies.

In the foreseeable future, it is not possible to overcome interstellar distances. However, human thought has been doing this for 400 years with the help of telescopes, radio telescopes, automatic interplanetary stations and orbital observatories.

Mysterious and mysterious, beautiful and frightening, outer space is full of amazing objects, acquaintance with which gives an amazing feeling of belonging to the secrets of the universe. This book contains real wonders of the Universe.