Books

Real space sci­ence meets beau­ti­ful images in this lyri­cal non­fic­tion intro­duc­tion to one of the most allur­ing won­ders of our uni­verse — the nebula.

Neb­u­la means “cloud” in Latin, but these lit­tle-known astro­nom­i­cal phe­nom­e­na are dif­fer­ent from Earth’s clouds. They can be the last breaths of super­novas, spread­ing the ele­ments of life far and wide, or they can be star nurs­eries, swirling mol­e­cules togeth­er to form stars and plan­ets. In this gor­geous non­fic­tion look into the cos­mos, the neb­u­la nar­ra­tor invites young astronomers to learn more about these immense space clouds, from how they form to what they do. Read­ers will be entranced by the vibrant illus­tra­tions, which incor­po­rate real pho­tographs of neb­u­lae, and the poet­ic text, which reveals that we are all grown from scat­tered star­dust. Rich back mat­ter pro­vides details about neb­u­lae and how peo­ple have stud­ied them, the neb­u­lae pic­tured in the illus­tra­tions (list­ed as the “cast”), and resources for fur­ther learning.