What happens when a star dies‎?‎ How many asteroids are in our solar system‎?‎ Can galaxies collide‎?‎ What is dark energy‎?‎ Astronomy in Minutes answers all these questions and more as it condenses 200 key concepts into easily digestible essays‎.‎ From Trojan asteroids to stellar black holes‎,‎ and from superclusters to cosmic microwave background‎,‎ this book will take you on an essential tour around the universe‎.‎ Beginning with the specks and constellations that we see in the night sky‎,‎ and then zooming in on the objects and ‎'‎matter‎'‎ beyond the naked eye‎,‎ Astronomy in Minutes draws on established theories and recent research‎.‎ Each essay is accompanied by an image or a clear diagram to help unravel complex ideas‎.‎ Beginning with the constellations and finishing with the latest cosmological theories‎,‎ this is the perfect reference guide to this fascinating subject‎.‎ Contents include‎:‎ The celestial sphere‎,‎ Piscis Austrinus‎,‎ the Earth‎-Moon system‎,‎ Io and Ganymede‎,‎ Kuiper Belt Objects‎,‎ Measuring stellar properties‎,‎ Nuclear fusion‎,‎ Red and orange dwarfs‎,‎ Open star clusters‎,‎ Planetary nebulae‎,‎ Supernova remnants‎,‎ Cosmic expansion‎,‎ Quasars and blazars‎,‎ Nature of spacetime‎,‎ Nucleosynthesis and the Anthropic Principle‎.‎