"From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe. Featuring topics from the Copernican Revolution to ... theories of recent science, [this book] uses flowcharts, graphics, and illustrations to help clarify hard-to-grasp concepts and explain almost 100 big astronomical ideas"--Amazon.com.

Uncle Larry's Antique Shop & Junkyard is a magical world where everything has a price--and nothing is as it seems. In this junkyard adventure, Eli and Grace get to explore outer space! They will visit famous constellations like Little Dipper and Big Dipper, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, and Orion the Hunter. Next, they get to meet Zip the Alien, an astronomy teacher, who gives them three space riddles to solve, and teaches them more about astronomy.

This book "combines the exciting travels of ... astronomer Emily Levesque with the misunderstood antics of a scrappy (and shrinking) crew of scientists working with stars and telescopes. She dissects both the romance and the real human curiosity that is so important to our exploration of space. Amidst the lonely quiet of stargazing to wild bears loose in the observatory, these love stories of astronomy show how scientists are going beyond the machines to infuse important creativity and intimate passion into the stars, inspiring future generations to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets"--