Description
Book SynopsisWelcome to the infographic guide to the most exciting place outside Earth: SPACE! Discover the mind-boggling facts, figures and amazing explorations in eye-popping infographics.
Think you know everything there is to know about space? Think again! This fact-packed bumper book is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about space ... and more!
Take a spin around the planets, dive into the core of the Sun, visit the International Space Station, zoom around the solar system with a comet, travel to distant galaxies, marvel at the many moons and meet Armstrong, Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Gagarin and a load of other famous space-faces
Using vivid colours, graphic visuals and bold designs, this guide brings space to life on the page with a modern and engaging approach to information. Readers will get hours of enjoyment dipping into the vast number of facts and stats in this awesome book.
For children aged 9+, this book is ideal for children studying space and science topics at key stage 2 and would make a brilliant gift for space-crazy kids!
Table of Contents
- 1: See into space;
- 2: Understanding space words;
- 3: How the universe began;
- 4: The Sun: hot facts and figures;
- 5: A meeting with Mercury;
- 6: Venus: a beauty and a beast;
- 7: What on Earth?;
- 8: Over the Moon;
- 9: Get red-y to meet Mars;
- 10: Belting around in orbit;
- 11: Jupiter the giant;
- 12: More marvellous moons;
- 13: Comets close-up;
- 14: Saturn the ring leader;
- 15: Spinning sideways with Uranus;
- 16: On the edge with Neptune;
- 17: Pluto and the other dwarf planets;
- 18: What a star!;
- 19: Galaxies near and far;
- 20: Awesome astronomers;
- 21: Studying space from Earth;
- 22: Amazing astronauts;
- 23: International Space Station;
- 24: Super spacecraft;
- 25: Space around the world;
- 26: The Space Race;
- 27: Space spin-offs;
- 28: Looking for life;
- 29: Weird, wacky and wonderful;
- 30: Space: more things to find;
- 31: Index;
