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What is the difference between a red dwarf and a yellow dwarf? Is the Milky Way a pretty average kind of galaxy? What about our solar system? Are planets like Earth common? What about SuperEarths? Fasten your seat belts! Packed with fascinating facts and diagrams, this pocket guide to the universe explains how galaxies, stars, and solar systems form, evolve, and fizzle out, and why the universe remains mysterious. You’ll never look at the night sky in the same way again.