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  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781405945318
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Vargic’s Curious Cosmic Compendium

Space, the Universe and Everything Within It




Discover the cosmos like you've never seen it before with internet sensation, Martin Vargic, at your side

If there were ever a great time to be publishing a fresh, innovative and up-to-date book on the Universe, it's now; 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and commercial travel into space feels closer than ever. For everyone who has ever wanted to know more about the space around us, Vargic's Curious Cosmic Compendium is more than just your ordinary stargazing book, it is the illustrated guide to the incredible universe that surrounds us.

Exploring everything from asteroids to space stations, chapters include:

* The Scale of the Universe
* Our Journey into Outer Space
* Maps of our Planets
* The Evolution of the Universe

This beautifully illustrated book will delight readers with its incredible facts, figures and stunning visuals. Vargic, a 21-year old computer whizz has spent 3 years crafting every single page so that we can understand the universe in a way we've never seen before.

  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781405945318
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

About the author

Martin Vargic

Martin Vargic, a 16-year-old artist from Slovakia rose to international fame in late January 2014, when his work Map of the Internet 1.0 went viral, generating hundreds of thousands of hits. It was featured on Mashable, Yahoo, The Daily Mail, The Independent Slate, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Gizmodo and dozens of other sites worldwide. Vargic has published several other maps on his website, halcyonmaps.com.

Praise for Vargic’s Curious Cosmic Compendium

Packs in so much of our astronomical knowledge, so many tidbits about the history of astronomy and space exploration that I felt wonderfully enriched by it all. The book managed to surprise me in so many different ways. It is visually striking and beautifully illustrated

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti, writer for @IFLScience

5 ***** In more than one hundred pages filled with facts and illustrations he takes the reader on a journey through the history of the cosmos

BBC Sky at Night