Visit the author's website www.lakivioja.com
From it, download the 'Quick Pick' Internet links recommended in the book's paragraphs producing over 1,400 Up-To-Date links with spectacular Photographs and Expert Descriptions complementing the book's text and offering on the spot Bibliography.
These Internet sites contain the newest available photographs from the largest ground based observatories and orbiting telescopes/sensors, most of which cannot be in any printed book. All given Internet sites are in the Public Domain.
Many of these Internet sites update themselves daily with Galleries and Archives. In this way, the book automatically keeps itself up-to-date about this Earth and the Space around us.
This book has factual up-to-date overview information of this unique, well-balanced, highly livable planet-Earth-system in the universe. The book is almost like a Guided Tour of the entire Universe.
This book is written in 'plain English' to be easily read and understood by all from 9 to 99. It has no mathematical formulas. All distances are given in easily understood Metric and English Units.
The book outlines Earth's constitution from its center core to the top of its atmosphere, our Sun, its solar system with its nine (eight in 2006) planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteor showers, the location of our solar system disk in our home galaxy, the disk-shaped Milky Way Galaxy, the location of the Milky Way among other near-by and far-away galaxies up to the edges of the known universe at 13,700,000,000 light-years away.
This book puts our Solar System, the Milky Way and all other known and unknown galaxies 'into a bottle' so that the realities of the space around, above, and under us can be visualized. The described miniature 3-dimensional model contains all estimated 125 - 3,000 billion galaxies, and it is small enough to fit in many backyards. It has never been published before to the knowledge of the author. The model is literally 'The Real Overview Model' of the entire universe.
This miniature model has 11,500 billion one cubic millimeter (paper) cubes. All cubes are stacked to form a 74-foot = 22.6-meter =22,600-millimeter conglomerate cube. Each face of the conglomerate cube looks like it has been draped with one-square-millimeter window screening.
This Earth is the only known livable 'Garden Spot' with its liquid water, breathable air, food to eat, reasonable temperatures, radiation and gravity. There is no other known heavenly body where the birds sing and where one can smell roses. This Earth is 'it'. Love it. Don't mess it up. Improve our Earth the little you can and keep it neat