Voyage Across the Cosmos: A Journey to the Edge of Space and Time - Couverture rigide

Sparrow, Giles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184724775X ISBN 13 : 9781847247759

Editeur : Quercus, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Join us on the most amazing voyage imaginable: travel over 13.7-billion light years and experience the awesome sights, spectacles and breathtaking scale of the cosmos.
Along the way you will visit planets, moons, asteroids, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs, black holes, dark matter and other phenomena that populate the heavens. Data streams, digital readouts and unique graphic interfaces, such as 'Image Enhance', 'Atmosphere Analysis' and 'Surface Detail' provide intrepid cosmic voyagers with a wealth of facts, information and data about all the celestial bodies they encounter - as well as some of the deadly hazards that lurk in outer space and how to avoid them.
Printed in dramatic over-sized format and packed with more than 300 of science's most spectacular photographs, Across the Cosmos is quite simply the biggest, best and most exciting children's space book ever published.
Across the Cosmos is specifically designed and written for children aged 7+ years. The sections are:
Across the Solar System
Through the Milky Way
Beyond our Galaxy

Biographie de l'auteur

Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and works as an editor specializing in popular science. He is the author of - amongst other books - The Genius Test, The Universe and How To See It, The Stargazer's Handbook and Hubble: Window on the Universe and was a major contributor to Dorling Kindersley's Universe.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Quercus
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184724775X
• ISBN 13: 9781847247759
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144