Space
Subtitle: facts at your fingertips
Series: DK pocket genius; DK pocket genius
Publisher: DK
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780756698164
Subjects: Juvenile literature
Description: Presenting facts and statistics, this book profiles more than 170 planets, stars, rockets, and rovers.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes chronology.

Includes glossary.

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Table of contents: title: What is out there? - The scale of the universe - The big bang - What is the universe made of? - The electromagnetic spectrum - Mapping the night sky - The northern sky - The southern sky - Studying space - How telescopes work - Ground-based telescopes - Space telescopes - The solar system - The sun's family - The rocky planets - The giant planets - Planetary features - The moon - Moons - Dwarf planets - Asteroids - Comets - Meteorites - Stars and nebulae - Life cycle of a star - Stars - Star clusters - Exoplanets - Nebulae - Galaxies - What is a galaxy? - Galaxies - Exploring space - Types of spacecraft - Rockets - Spacecraft - Manned missions - Space stations.