There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System

There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593126440

Laugh and learn with fun facts about the sun, the moon, the planets, constellations, astronauts, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat! “The universe is a mysterious place. We are only just learning what happens in space.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! On this adventure into outer space, readers will discover: • what makes each planet in our solar system unique • how a million Earths could fit inside the sun • how astronauts have driven a special car all over the moon • and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! Cows Can Moo! Can You? All About Farms Hark! A Shark! All About Sharks If I Ran the Dog Show: All About Dogs Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur? All About Dinosaurs On Beyond Bugs! All About Insects One Vote Two Votes I Vote You Vote Who Hatches the Egg? All About Eggs Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? All About Deserts Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures

Cosmos

Cosmos
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0345539435

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for Cosmos “Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.”—The Plain Dealer “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.”—Newsday “Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . . shimmers with a sense of wonder.”—The Miami Herald “Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—Cosmopolitan “Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated.”—The New York Times Book Review

Pluto and the Universe Plut N y El Universo

Pluto and the Universe Plut N y El Universo
Author: Fabiola Johnson
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1463302878

ABOUT THE BOOK Pluto and the Universe is a book that contains a play in English and Spanish and that could be read and/or staged by a minimum of ten and a maximum of seventeen, children, teens and adults alike. Intended for young audiences who not only will see and hear the characters who share outer space with Pluto, but will also reflect upon their place in the world and the importance of belonging, or not, to a particular group. With astronomical data and a story about an element who is expelled from the "system", spectators and readers are witnesses to an anecdote that is not so distant or different from one a human being can have here on Earth. The play takes place in 2006 (year on earth) in and around the solar system. The Sun has called for an alignment in order to inform the nine planets of the three recent requirements for classifying as a planet of the solar system. Firstly, they must orbit the Sun, secondly, have a spheroid shape and also clear their orbital environment. The audience will learn how all of the planets meet these requirements, except for Pluto who is not willing to go. He must meet Charon, Halley's Comet, an asteroid, a star and the Oort Cloud in order to comprehend the importance of being unique and a necessary part of this wonderful place called, the Universe. Plutón y el Universo es un libro que contiene una obra de teatro en inglés y en español ideal para un mínimo de diez actores y un máximo de diecisiete. Podrá ser leída y/o puesta en escena por niños, jóvenes y adultos. Dirigida a un público de niños y jóvenes que no sólo verán y escucharán a los personajes que comparten el espacio exterior con Plutón, también reflexionarán sobre su lugar en el mundo y la importancia de pertenecer o no, a un grupo en particular. Con datos astronómicos y una historia de un integrante que es expulsado de su lugar, podrán ser testigos de una anécdota que no es tan lejana o distinta a la de un humano en la Tierra. La obra se desarrolla en el año 2006 (de los terrícolas) en el sistema solar y sus alrededores. El Sol ha citado a los nueve planetas a una alineación ya que debe informarles acerca de los tres nuevos requerimientos para poder ser un planeta del sistema solar. Deberán orbitar al Sol, ser esféricos y despejar las inmediaciones de su órbita. El público se entera de cómo y porque todos cumplen, menos Plutón, que tendrá que dejar de llamarse el noveno planeta del sistema solar. Este no acepta y deberá de conocer a Caronte, al Cometa Halley, a un asteroide, a una estrella y a la gran Nube de Oort para comprender la importancia de ser único y necesario en este grandioso espacio llamado, Universo.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-02-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393082911

“A compelling appeal, at just the right time, for continuing to look up.”—Air & Space America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries’ space programs. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson—one of our foremost thinkers on all things space—illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world. Provocative, humorous, and wonderfully readable, Space Chronicles represents the best of Tyson’s recent commentary, including a must-read prologue on NASA and partisan politics. Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.

Unhooking the Moon

Unhooking the Moon
Author: Gregory Hughes
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1623650216

Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and a finalist for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a starred review Kirkus Review praised Unhooking the Moon as a "rousing adventure on the not-so-mean streets, with heart aplenty." When an adventurous sister-and-brother duo become orphans, a funny and heartbreaking roadtrip to New York ensues, as the pair searches for their long-lost uncle. Meet the Rat: A dancing, soccer-loving, fearless ten-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Meet her older brother, Bob: Protector of the Rat, though more often than not her faithful follower, Bob is determined to build a new and better life for him and his sister in America. Of particular concern for him are his sister's mysterious fits, which keep getting more and more severe. On their adventures traveling alone from the flatlands of Winnipeg, southward across the border into America, Bob and the Rat make friends with a host of unlikely characters, including a hilarious con man and a famous rap star. As they struggle to survive in the big city, they realize that finding your uncle in New York is incredibly difficult if you have almost no information about him--even if he is rumored to be one of the city's biggest drug dealers.

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat
Author: Theodor Seuss Geisel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 61
Release: 1957
Genre: Cats
ISBN:

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day meet the cat in the hat who shows them some tricks and games.

The Pluto System After New Horizons

The Pluto System After New Horizons
Author: S. Alan Stern
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0816540942

Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system.

Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-07-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307801012

“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

The Atrocity Archives

The Atrocity Archives
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101208848

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393866890

“Who can ask for better cosmic tour guides?” —Michio Kaku Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as the now more than 5,000 detected exoplanets that promise to reveal exciting possibilities for life in the cosmos, and data from a new generation of ground-based and spaceborne observatories that have fundamentally changed what we know about the expanding universe?and maybe even the laws of physics themselves. From the first image of a galaxy’s birth to tantalizing evidence of water not only on Mars but also on the asteroid Ceres, as well as on moons of Jupiter and Saturn, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct an exhilarating tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.