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101 Facts You Didn't Know about Space by Mark Thompson
4.0
How I read this: Free ebook copy received through NetGalley
Stunning images and bite size information make this book the perfect coffee table read for a scientifically minded person. I feel like it should also be good to get kids and teens more interested in space stuff - the curious facts and beautiful photos would be attractive to a younger reader (at least I wish I had a book like that lying around when I was younger!)
The facts are really interesting and there is quite a lot of info about each one (about a page of text, sometimes more). Some of them are more widely known (such as about the astronauts' footprints staying on the moon for thousands of years and why that happens), but others are quite new and wild (such as how Neptune may have seas of liquid diamond floating around or the volcanoes on Mars and how huge they are). Some facts will make you think, even philosophize (black holes are not... holes. Light particles take years and years and years to get out of the sun, and why this happens.) Some facts are something you may have been wondering about for a while now (like why does the moon seem so huge only when it's coming up in the night sky, but then seems to shrink to its normal size when it's in its normal spot?) And some facts are about how things are constantly misrepresented in movies (steaming hot meteorites and astronauts dying instantly when exposed to the space void.) All of this info was incredibly interesting, plus photos of the night sky, Hubble star snapshots or pictures from astronaut travels were a wonderful addition to the info.
I can definitely recommend this book!
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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Stunning images and bite size information make this book the perfect coffee table read for a scientifically minded person. I feel like it should also be good to get kids and teens more interested in space stuff - the curious facts and beautiful photos would be attractive to a younger reader (at least I wish I had a book like that lying around when I was younger!)
The facts are really interesting and there is quite a lot of info about each one (about a page of text, sometimes more). Some of them are more widely known (such as about the astronauts' footprints staying on the moon for thousands of years and why that happens), but others are quite new and wild (such as how Neptune may have seas of liquid diamond floating around or the volcanoes on Mars and how huge they are). Some facts will make you think, even philosophize (black holes are not... holes. Light particles take years and years and years to get out of the sun, and why this happens.) Some facts are something you may have been wondering about for a while now (like why does the moon seem so huge only when it's coming up in the night sky, but then seems to shrink to its normal size when it's in its normal spot?) And some facts are about how things are constantly misrepresented in movies (steaming hot meteorites and astronauts dying instantly when exposed to the space void.) All of this info was incredibly interesting, plus photos of the night sky, Hubble star snapshots or pictures from astronaut travels were a wonderful addition to the info.
I can definitely recommend this book!
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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