Now enhanced with a powerful technology and image projection package, this is the most exciting and effective edition yet.It features a clear and engaging writing style. It contains strong pedagogical features with accompanying supplements for both students and lecturers. It provides the Starry Night/Deep Space Explorer CD with every copy.Carried along by the book’s vibrant main theme – the process of scientific discovery – readers will encounter spectacular sights, landmark experiments, and recent discoveries, while learning to avoid the pitfalls created by common misconceptions about astronomy.