Voyage Across the Cosmos
Author(s): Giles Sparrow
Starting at Planet Earth, you will travel over 130-billion-trillion kilometres across the solar system and milky way, through deep space to the very outer edge of the universe. Along the way you will encounter raging planets and their deadly atmospheres, icy moons that could support life, and immense, silent asteroids spinning through the vacuum of space. Filled with gorgeous photos of planets, moons, stars, comets and more and heaps of information about each one this is a fantastic book for budding astronomers or anyone interested in knowing more about the universe we live in.
Product Information
Fabulous photos and facts - Families Magazine. revels in the mysteries of the universe as you are transported to dying stars and strange galaxies - Sunday Express.
Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He has acted as consultant and contributor on numerous popular science books for adults and children. Giles wrote The Universe and How to See it (Readers' Digest, 2001), was a major contributor to Universe (Dorling Kindersley, 2005) and wrote the bestselling Cosmos (Quercus, 2006).
General Fields
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- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : 01 October 2008
- : 355mm X 287mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Giles Sparrow
- : Hardback
- : 144
- : Over 300 colour illustrations
