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202) Telescope
Publisher
Solomark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Telescope for Kids and Adults - This telescope provides erect image optics, for terrestrial and astronomical use. The fully multi-coated optics glass lens with high transmission coatings creates stunning images and protect your eyes. Optical Quality - 70mm Aperture and 700mm Focal Length telescope has 10mm and 20mm Plossl eyepieces, the magnification is 70X and 35X. Plossl eyepiece have better optical performance than K and H eyepieces. Effectively...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A complete guide to solar eclipses for the general public with detailed coverage of the 2017 and 2024 total eclipses over the U.S. Well timed for the August 2017 eclipse over North America, it shows how, when, and where to see the coming total solar eclipses, how to photograph and video record them, and how to do so safely.--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: the first total eclipse of the sun in America in almost forty years. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed from a fearsome omen to a tourist attraction. From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high priests of the Maya, Sun Moon Earth takes us around...
Publisher
Yankee Publishing Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A compilation of practical advice and folklore features weather forecasts for the United States, planting tables, health remedies, horoscopes, recipes, games and puzzles, and other entertaining and useful information.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The fiery surface of our sun and the icy surface of dwarf planet Pluto are among the topics readers will discover through fascinating, accessible language. These two extremes, and every world in between, are visited; making a stop at each of the planets and many of the moons of our solar system, readers are sure to enjoy discovering which of the planets is the largest, which is the hottest, which moves the fastest, and more riveting, fun facts. Vivid...
211) Outer space
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is is a lively introduction to the world of outer space, where children can lift the flaps to learn about all about what's beyond our earth. Young readers will be amazed as they find out how black holes work, the environments of planets in different universes, how we landed on the moon, and much, much more. This book features over 30 sturdy flaps to lift, along with charming, kid-friendly artwork that introduces new concepts and vocabulary in...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jordan Edelman, determined to avoid dating during her summer trip to Nantucket, finds herself entangled with her father's research assistant, whom she has disliked for years, but as she delves into a centuries-old mystery with a local astronomer, her growing relationship becomes increasingly complicated.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe's "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has relentlessly pursued his quest, inventing and constructing, in the process, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational wave observatory, to mediate our first encounters with the Warped Side. Thirteen...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal relationships has been with the night sky itself. In Starborn,...
217) When worlds collide
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On November 25th, 1915, Albert Einstein published his field equations of general relativity and reinvented gravity. Rather than being some mysterious unseen force pulling objects together, gravity, Einstein told the world, is a manifestation of the curvature of space-time caused by the presence of massive objects. But Einstein's theory wasn't born in a vacuum, not even the vacuum of space. Instead, the theory of general relativity relies upon complicated...
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