The listing, Space a Visual Encyclopedia by DK NICE has ended.
This is a really neat book. I took several pictures so that you could see how totally awesome the photos are in this book. It is by DK Publishing, so you KNOW it is good. It is copyrighted in 2010 and had the latest imagery from NASA at that time. Chapters are Observing the Universe, The Violent Universe, Liftoff!, Humans in Space, Solar System, Earth, The Moon, The Sun, Stars and Stargazing. It is truly a nice book. no writing that I have seen in it.