"This book is divided into four parts. The first part, 'Herschel's Garden, ' {aims to} give the reader an overview of the dynamic universe discovered by astronomers--the stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, interstellar gas and dust, quasars, galaxies, their distribution in space as clustersand superclusters of galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole. ... The second part, 'The Early Universe, ' {seeks to} describe the ... picture of the universe...