Book Description
Provides an introduction to the bodies in our solar system so that young astronomers and explorers can learn to identify the nine planets and how to seek out the shapes in the sky that make up the constellations. Simultaneous.
Author : Laura Evert
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781439550366
Provides an introduction to the bodies in our solar system so that young astronomers and explorers can learn to identify the nine planets and how to seek out the shapes in the sky that make up the constellations. Simultaneous.
Author : Joe Rhatigan
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781643108636
Learn about our solar system in this science reader packed with NASA photos and space facts. For up-to-date information (including about Pluto and its fellow dwarf planets) and stellar photos and illustrations, kids eager for mind-blowing non-fiction need look no further!
Author : William K. Hartmann
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Emily Sohn
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684509556
The sun, moon, and stars are a wonderful sight! Do you know that they are part of a structured universe? Learn about these objects that move in regular patterns across the sky with real world science. Use what you learn to solve a bank-robbery mystery! Includes a note to caregivers, a glossary, a discover activity, and career connections, as well as connections to science history.
Author : Arthur Upgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813553563
What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.
Author : Stephanie Turnbull
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Solar system
ISBN : 9780746055847
This exploration of the sun, moon and stars is part of a series introducing children to the wonder of the world around them. It has two reading levels, with a simple sentence on each page for beginners, accompanied by more complex information which can be read as the child's ability grows.
Author : Philip C. Plait
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471422075
Advance praise for Philip Plait s Bad Astronomy "Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up everymisconception on astronomy and space you never knew you sufferedfrom." --Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editorof The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia "Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait,who is the world s leading consumer advocate for quality science inspace and on Earth. This important contribution to science willrest firmly on my reference library shelf, ready for easy accessthe next time an astrologer calls." --Dr. Michael Shermer,Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for ScientificAmerican, and author of The Borderlands of Science "Philip Plait has given us a readable, erudite, informative,useful, and entertaining book. Bad Astronomy is Good Science. Verygood science..." --James "The Amazing" Randi, President, JamesRandi Educational Foundation, and author of An Encyclopedia ofClaims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural "Bad Astronomy is a fun read. Plait is wonderfully witty andeducational as he debunks the myths, legends, and 'conspiraciesthat abound in our society. 'The Truth Is Out There' and it's inthis book. I loved it!" --Mike Mullane, Space Shuttle astronaut andauthor of Do Your Ears Pop in Space?
Author : Laura Evert
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Constellations
ISBN : 9780329324278
Discusses the planets and moons of our solar system and describes thirteen constellations and some legends associated with them.
Author : Pfiffikus
Publisher : Pfiffikus
Page : pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781683776048
How are heavenly bodies categorized? How would you know that what you're seeing is a star, a planet or a moon? Learn about the basic definitions of some of the most popular objects in outer space! This educational resource includes information that will prove to be useful for your little astronomer. Secure a copy today!
Author : Erik Asphaug
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0062657941
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world’s most innovative planetary geologists. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. Fourteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being, creating galaxies and stars. Planets formed out of the leftover dust and gas that coalesced into larger and larger bodies orbiting around each star. In a sort of heavenly survival of the fittest, planetary bodies smashed into each other until solar systems emerged. Curiously, instead of being relatively similar in terms of composition, the planets in our solar system, and the comets, asteroids, satellites and rings, are bewitchingly distinct. So, too, the halves of our moon. In When the Earth Had Two Moons, esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, When the Earth Had Two Moons is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here—and billions of miles from home.