The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)! Quick:...
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Author: Mike Vago
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The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System by Vago, Mike

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

CHF 23.30

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

CHF 23.30
Author: Mike Vago
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!

Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!

It's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything--and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.

At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .

Author: Mike Vago
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 54
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 6.06h x 10.08w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781615197774
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/09/2022

About the Author
Vago, Mike: - Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf. He's a graphic designer and a regular contributor to The A.V. Club. He tells people he lives in New York, but he actually lives in New Jersey.

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