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1) Dune
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English
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Future space fantasy concerning a time when the human race has reached a point of intellectual stagnation and receives the help of a space-age Messiah and prophet.
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Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Publication Date
2018.
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24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Pluto is too big to be an asteroid and too small to be a planet, so scientists call it a dwarf planet. It's so far away from the sun that it gets no warmth at all, so it's covered in a thick layer of ice. Readers learn fun facts such as these as they explore the world of our solar system's dwarf planets"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and...
7) Planets
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Publication Date
[2016]
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photographs describe the planets"-- Provided by the publisher.
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St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell...
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Publication Date
2021.
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English
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"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
12) The terraformers
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Publication Date
2023.
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English
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"Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted...
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Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries:...
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Publisher
Picture Window Books
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations, music.
Language
English
Description
Presents a song to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin?" with lyrics about each of the eight planets in our solar system. Includes color illustrations, a glossary, and an index.
15) Children of Dune
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English
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The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared into the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities -- making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of the House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced house Corrino is plotting...
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Publication Date
2010
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English
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The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf”...
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Publisher
Custom House
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be,...
19) The Planets
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Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Language
English
Description
A highly visual introduction explains the basic concepts of astronomy and gives advice on the best methods and equipment for observation, including binoculars and telescopes. Each of the planets in the Solar System is described and illustrated in detail, with images taken from space probes as well as from the ground, showing them as you can expect to see them. More than 160 star charts were made especially for this book by the Royal Greenwich Observatory....