The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

by Mike Vago
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/02/2024

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The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!


Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!


It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.


At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .

ISBN:
9781615197781
9781615197781
Category:
Space (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-02-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Experiment

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