Voyage Across the Cosmos by Giles Sparrow

Voyage Across the Cosmos by Giles Sparrow

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; and, Beyond our Galaxy.

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).

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ISBN 13	9781847245243
ISBN 10	1847245242
Title	Voyage Across the Cosmos
Author	Giles Sparrow
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2008-10-02
Number of pages	144
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