70 thousand million, million stars in space
By: Paul Rockett ; illustrated by Mark Ruffle
Contributors: Ruffle, Mark, illustrator
Series: The big countdown
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781445126715
Subjects: Astronomy; Miscellanea; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Seventy thousand million, million stars in space
Description: You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the stars in the sky or measure the temperature of the Sun. Explore Space - from galaxies and stars to the planets in our solar system, including Earth, and our own satelite, the Moon. From the mind-bogglingly large to smallest and most precious, investigate space and find out the numbers that help make it fascinating.
Notes: 9-11.

Key Stage 2.
Table of contents: title: Counting down the universe; title: 70 thousand, million, million, million stars in space; title: There are 500 billion galaxies in the universe; title: The Milky Way is 13.2 billion years old; title: Our solar system is 11 billion km wide; title: 500 million people watched the first moon landing; title: Are aliens living 57 million km away or next door?; title: 15 million degrees Celsius at the centre of the sun; title: 1642 death of Galileo Galilei; title: 75-76 years for an appearance of Halley's Comet; title: 27 moons of Uranus; title: 24 hours for earth to rotate; title: One year for the earth to orbit the sun; title: Further information and large numbers.