Will the sun ever burn out?
Subtitle: Earth, sun, and moon
By: Rosalind Mist
Series: Stargazers' guides; Stargazers' guides
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780431181868; 9780431181936
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Solar radiation
Description: Our Sun is one of the most familiar objects in the sky. We depend on it for light and heat. But the Sun will not be around forever- like all stars, it will eventually die. What will this mean for life on Earth? Includes diagrams to help explain the concepts, hands-on experiments and observations to try for yourself and photographs taken by telescopes on Earth and in space.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking up at the sky; title: The Earth; title: The Moon; title: The Sun; title: Earth and Sun; title: Earth and Moon; title: Solar eclipses; title: The death of the Sun; title: Map of the Moon; title: Eclipse timetable; title: Glossary.