What is the temperature on Venus? How to distinguish a pulsar from a variable star and a quasar? The universe is one or there are many of them? What place does our Sun occupy among other stars? How do the map of relic radiation make up? And the most important question: Are we alone in the universe? The book you hold in your hands gives answers to these and other similar questions. They all look at the night sky, but not everyone knows how it works. Now you will touch its secrets .. In the book "Astronomy in 30 seconds" accessible and understandable to all earthlings language describes cosmic phenomena of the greatest scale. Each of the 50 striking discoveries in astronomy is set out in just two pages, about 300 words, with colorful illustrations. This book is your personal guide to the universe, written by scientists and researchers who keep a finger on the pulse of modern science and personally discover the secrets of life, the cosmos and everything else. Welcome to the fascinating world of astronomy!