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Our Solar System Simon, Seymour
1992 0688099920 / 9780688099923 Hard Cover Very Good Condition
Our Solar System was born almost 5 billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. In over fifty dramatic, full-color photographs and an easy-to-read text, award-winning author Seymour Simon takes you on a fascinating tour of the nine planets, dozens of moons, and thousands of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that travel around our sun. First, he explores the star at the center of our Solar System — from the constant nuclear explosions at its core to the giant storms on its surface as geysers of flaming gas over a hundred thousand miles long rise and fall in just a few hours. You will also learn about the four rocky inner planets, from airless Mercury to fiery Venus, her sister planet, Earth, and mysterious Mars. Then join the thrilling Voyager missions to explore the four gaseous outer planets: gigantic Jupiter, ringed Saturn, tilted Uranus — the planet lying on its side — and windy Neptune. You will finish your journey at distant Pluto, then visit the asteroid belt and examine comets, the dirty snowballs in space. A companion volume to Simon's landmark series of individual books.
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21.00 USD
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THE UNIVERSE Simon, Seymour
Scholastic 1999 0-439-05279-3 / 9780439052795 Very good Condition
From School Library Journal Grade 3-6ASimon offers what amounts to an introduction to his long running, literally and figuratively stellar series of photo-essays on matters astronomical. Matching full-color, full- and double-page-spread-sized light and radio photographs of nebulas, galaxies, and sundry deep-space phenomena with two or three paragraphs of explanatory text, he covers a wide range of topics, from the Big Bang to quasars, from star formation to extrasolar planets. Care has been taken to keep the pictures and related text close together, and the choice of detail is guaranteed to whet youngster's appetites for a more thorough, narrowly focused treatment. Asking some of the Big QuestionsA"Does life exist on earth-like planets in distant solar systems? Will the universe expand forever or finally stop and then collapse into a gigantic black hole?"ASimon writes that "we are just at the beginning of a golden age of discovery." This book, along with the others that it leads to, will give children the solid background they will need to understandAand perhaps even participate inAthose discoveries.AJohn Peters, New York Public Library Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description Take a thrilling voyage through space! Did you know that... The Sun was formed 4 1/2 billion years ago from a swirling disk of dust, ice, and gas. The universe is expanding- galaxies speed away from one another at thousands of miles per second. There are more stars in this universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches. Matter sucked into a black hole will never return or be seen again. Explore the mystery and beauty that is the universe!
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12.62 USD
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