"To find your own answer to these universal questions, save the best for last and look at our Earth from space as astronauts do. "Are we alone out here in the cosmos, suspended on the arm of the Milky Way?" Nye asks. He also gives readers some advise on how to peruse the book.
Nye provides a brisk history of how the solar system was formed, starting with the sun itself and moving on to the inner rocky planets, the "Jovian" gas giants and finally the outer Kuiper Belt objects. On top of the eight planets, there are also shots of the Sun, Kuiper Belt objects, ex-planet Pluto and its moon, Charon. So, alongside recent photos of Saturn and its moons like Titan and Enceladus, it includes the first ever photo of Earth taken from the moon's perspective, snapped by the Lunar Orbiter 1.
The pictures were chosen not just to make your jaw drop, but chronicle some of NASA's more notable findings. "You are looking at images with a clarity and sharpness that our ancestors probably couldn't even imagine, let alone capture," he said. As Nye puts it, we haven't exactly been doing this for a long time. A new book called The Planets, written and curated by Nirmala Nataraj with a forward by Bill Nye and featuring hundreds of stunning NASA images, should cure you of your cynicism. It's easy to get jaded by images of our solar system, especially when NASA probes like Cassini make it look so routine.
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