As its name suggests, The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets by F. W. Taylor (Cambridge University Press, $49.95, £29.95) offers a selection of the latest images of the planetary bodies in our Solar System. Starting with Mercury, the book takes the reader on a voyage to the outer edges of our planetary system, encompassing the planets and their respective satellites, plus asteroids and comets along the way. The image shown above, for example, shows Jupiter and was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It offers a relatively rare 'true colour' picture of the planet — in most images of Jupiter, the colours are exaggerated to emphasize the contrasts.