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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"...looks to the heavens in an attempt to understand the age-old secrets of Earth. Applying the most advanced science, space technology, and digital imaging, the series boldly tris to unravel history's most enduring mysteries."--Container.
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Description
In this cumulative, rhyming story, a young boy takes a nighttime ride from the distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy to his cozy bed, as his blanket becomes a rocket, a plane, and a skateboard.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to...
6) Universe
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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Explores the stars, galaxies, planets, and other phenomena in the universe, and describes the history of human space exploration.
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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
270 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Each night, we are able to gaze up at the night sky and look at the thousands of stars that stretch to the end of our individual horizons. But the stars we see are only those that make up our own Milky Way galaxybut one of hundreds of billions in the whole of the universe, each separated by inconceivably huge tracts of empty space. In this book, astronomer James Geach tells the rich stories of both the evolution of galaxies and our ability to observe...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 35 cm.
Description
Presents the latest findings about the universe, covering such topics as the solar system and its stars, other galaxies, supernovas, star clusters, nebulas, and black holes, and examines man's effort to explore outer space and find signs of life on other planets.
10) Pi in the sky
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Bored with his existence in the shimmering Void with his bickering Uncle Deva and Aunt Penelope, Mr g wakes up from a nap one day and decides to create the universe only to be challenged by intellectual rival Belhor--Novelist.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Description
Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse-countless different universes, most far too bizarre to harbor life. Holed up in the theoretical physics...
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From robotic rovers on Mars to NASA probes slamming into comets and deep space telescopes capturing violent images of the birth of stars, season five of this illuminating series explores how these discoveries were made and who made them. Dramatic CGI and interviews with expert cosmologists, astronomers and astrophysicists bring the history of the heavens down to earth and provide a glimpse into our future.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), photographs ; 24 cm
Description
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may not be possible—yet—the would-be space traveler need not despair: you can still take the scenic route through the galaxy with renowned astronomer...
18) Only one
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Description
"This picture book showcases the unique beauty of our one-and-only universe--its galaxies, stars, and planets--as well as our one-and-only Earth, and the precious life it contains"--
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