A Guide to Space - Kevin Pettman

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Résumé :
This guide brings fascinating facts and incredible information to life so you can visit planets, moons and comets, follow space probes, wonder at the mysteries of star birth and death, meet heroes of space travel, voyage to the International Space Station and much more.

Biographie:
Kevin Pettman is a versatile and passionate editor and writer with 15 years experience of market-leading national consumer interest titles, ranging from weekly and monthly magazines to books, annuals, special projects and partworks.

Sommaire:

• 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;