Did You Know? Space: Amazing Answers to More Than 200 Awesome Questions!

146 Pages·2017·88.35 MB·English

by  Sarah Cruddas

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Did You now?
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Did You now?
Sarah Cruddas
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Contents
Author Sarah Cruddas
The universe
DK LONDON
Editor Katy Lennon
Designer Lucy Sims
US Senior editor Shannon Beatty 8–9 What is space?
US Editor Jenny Siklos
Additional editing Alex Cox, Jolyon Goddard 10–11 Where does space begin?
Additional design Hoa Luc, Emma Hobson
Managing editor Laura Gilbert 12–13 Where did the universe come from?
Managing art editor Diane Peyton Jones
Pre-production producer Nadine King 14–15 How big is the universe?
Producer Niamh Tierney
16–17 How cold is it in space?
Jacket editor Francesca Young
Jacket designer Amy Keast 18–19 What is an orbit?
Art director Martin Wilson
Publisher Sarah Larter 20–21 Can you scream in space?
Publishing director Sophie Mitchell
DK DELHI
Project editor Ishani Nandi The solar system
Art editors Nehal Verma, Kartik Gera
Managing editor Alka Thakur Hazarika
Managing art editor Romi Chakraborty
DTP designers Neeraj Bhatia, Vijay Kandwal 24–25 What is the solar system?
CTS manager Balwant Singh
Production manager Pankaj Sharma 26–27 What are planets made of?
Picture researcher Nishwan Rasool
Jacket design assistant Dheeraj Arora 28–29 Why is there life on Earth?
First American Edition, 2017 30–31 Why is Jupiter striped?
Published in the United States by DK Publishing
345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 32–33 Is there life on Mars?
Copyright © 2017 Dorling Kindersley Limited 34–35 What are Saturn’s rings made of?
DK, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
17 18 19 20 21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 36–37 Is Pluto a planet?
001–298816–Sept/2017
38–39 How hot is the sun?
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40–41 Why does the moon change its shape?
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Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. 44–45 Do other planets have moons?
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ISBN 978-1-4654-6186-5
hit the Earth?
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50–51 Why do comets have tails?
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A WORLD OF IDEAS: 52–53 What is the asteroid belt?
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54–55 Can you see the Earth from other planets?
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56–57 What are auroras?
58–59 Could you live on Venus?
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Deep space
100–101 Why do astronauts need space suits?
62–63 How many stars 102–103 What was the Space Shuttle?
are there in the universe? 104–105 How do astronauts return to Earth?
64–65 Where do stars come from? 106–107 Where do astronauts live in space?
66–67 Are all stars the same? 108–109 Why do astronauts float in space?
68–69 What is a light-year? 110–111 What do astronauts eat in space?
70–71 What is a black hole? 112–113 What is mission control?
72–73 What happens when stars die? 114–115 What happens when things
74–75 What shape is the Milky Way? go wrong in space?
76–77 Why do stars twinkle? 116–117 Have we been to Mars?
78–79 Are there any planets outside 118–119 Why do we put satellites in space?
our solar system? 120–121 How far have we traveled in space?
80–81 What shines the brightest 122–123 What is space junk?
in the universe? 124–125 Is there anyone else out there?
126–127 What is space mining?
Space exploration 128–129 Can you go on vacation to space?
130–131 Will we go back to the moon?
84–85 How do we look into space?
86–87 Who were the first space
132–133 Answers
explorers?
134–137 Quiz your friends!
88–89 Have animals been to space?
138–139 Glossary
90–91 What was the Space Race?
140–143 Index
92–93 How many people have
144 Acknowledgments
been to the moon?
94–95 How are rockets launched?
96–97 How long does it take to get
to the moon? Discover when
98–99 How do astronauts train for space?
I became the
first person to
go to space
on page 86.
Find out why
I was sent to space
on page 88.
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The universe
The universe is an enormous area of space that
is always growing. Everything we know, such as
planets, galaxies, stars, and living things, are in it.
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8 THE UNIVERSE
What is space?
On cloudless nights when you look
up at the dark sky, you can see space.
It stretches much farther than the eye
can see and contains the moon, the
sun, all the planets, as well as the Earth,
and the stars. Space also contains many
things that we haven’t yet discovered.
How do we explore space?
Telescopes
Telescopes help us see far into space.
They show us images of stars and
galaxies too distant to travel to.
Robots People in space
Robots can visit places in space that People have been traveling into space
humans cannot yet reach. They help since the 1960s. During their trips, they
us understand these places. carry out experiments.
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