Night Sky

Nick Hunter

Description

In this book the mysteries of space and the night sky are revealed and explained. Readers learn about the moon, the sun, other stars far away from home and the wonder of the Northern Lights, solar eclipses, and comets. They are given insights into what people believed in the past, what people are studying today and a fun activity to try. Beautiful photographs and simple explanations provide the truth behind the fascinating things we can see, enabling readers to look up with awe and understanding.

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 06 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781406268393
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

THE NIGHT SKY d Otheran Amazing Sights in Space

Nick Hunter

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Edited by Dan Nunn, Rebecca Rissman, and Sian Smith Designed by Joanna Hinton-Malivoire and Marcus Bell Picture research by Mica Brancic Production by Sophia Argyris Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by South China Printing Company Ltd

ISBN 978 1 406 25959 9 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hunter, Nick. The night sky and other amazing sights in space.  1. Astronomy--Juvenile literature.  I. Title  520-dc23

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp.12 (© Images of Africa Photobank/David Keith Jones), 33 (© Mark Hamilton); Capstone Publishers pp.44, 45 (© Karon Dubke); Getty Images pp4 (Photolibrary/Steven Puetzer), 10 (AFP Photo), 11 (AFP Photo/Damien Meyer); NASA pp.19, 15 (JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)), 21 (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory), 22 (SOHO), 26 (University of Maryland/JPL-Caltech), 30 (JPL- Caltech/UCLA), 37 (ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team), 38 (ESA/SOHO), 40 (SDO), 41 (Visible Earth/EOS Project Science Ofîce/Goddard Space Flight Centre), 42 (JAXA), 43 (ESA/Johns Hopkins University); Science Photo Library pp.8 (Gary Hincks), 13, 14, 34 (Babak Tafreshi, Twan), 23 (NASA), 24 (Walter Pacholka, Astropics), 25 (Richard Kail), 27 (European Southern Observatory), 28 (Detlev Van Ravenswaay), 29 (Julian Baum), 31 (Alex Cherney, Terrastro.com), 32 (Jerry Lodriguss), 35 (Roger Harris), 39 (Julian Baum); Shutterstock pp.5 (© Albie Bredenhann), 6 (© Kokhanchikov), 7 (© sdecoret), 9 (© Viktar Malyshchyts), 17 (© Roman Krochuk), 17 (© Stephen Mcsweeny), 18 (© Leonello Calvetti), 20 (© Triff); WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF//University of Alaska Anchorage/T. A. Rector p36.

Cover photograph of Comet McNaught reproduced with permission of Miroslav Druckmüller.

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Contents

Earth in space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Solar eclipses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Northern Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Activity: measuring space. . . . . . . . . . 44 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Find out more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Some words are shown in bold,like this. You can înd them in the glossary on page 46.

Earth in space

4

Look up into the sky and you can see some amazing sights. On a clear night you will see hundreds of lights. These are the starsandplanets. They share theuniverse with our own planet, Earth.

You can look for stars and planets in the night sky. Stars twinkle, but planets do not.