9781728475349-1728475341-The Big Backyard: The Solar System beyond Pluto

The Big Backyard: The Solar System beyond Pluto

ISBN-13: 9781728475349
ISBN-10: 1728475341
Author: Ron Miller
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
Format: Library Binding 104 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781728475349
ISBN-10: 1728475341
Author: Ron Miller
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
Format: Library Binding 104 pages

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The Big Backyard: The Solar System beyond Pluto (ISBN-13: 9781728475349 and ISBN-10: 1728475341), written by authors Ron Miller, was published by Twenty-First Century Books ™ in 2023. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Big Backyard: The Solar System beyond Pluto (Library Binding) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.57.

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Thousands of years ago, humans believed that Earth was the center of the universe, that the world they lived on was all there was. Truthfully, the solar system extends almost halfway to the nearest star. And it is composed of not only planets, asteroids, and comets, but also powerful forces and vast fields of energy. This is our solar system's big backyard.

The cold, dark world that lies at the farthest reaches of our solar system holds a vast collection of secrets, and for most of human history, we had no idea anything was out there. But, driven by curiosity and equipped with new technology, astronomers have determined that beyond the orbit of Neptune are countless icy comets, strange particles that dance under the influence of the sun, and signs of undiscovered planets. To learn more about these far-flung objects, scientists have finally begun to explore the distant solar system, finding answers to age-old questions at the same time that they encounter new mysteries.

With Ron Miller's incredible illustrations and photographs from NASA probes and telescopes, The Big Backyard takes us on a tour through the solar system's most obscure neighborhoods and into its darkest corners, to places beyond the limits of the human eye. Miller expertly describes the formation of the solar system and the history of the exploration of the outer solar system before delving into the latest discoveries and missions. Read on to learn what sorts of objects orbit at such extreme distances, what happens at the boundary between the sun's influence and interstellar space, whether there is such a thing as the mysterious Planet X, and how life on Earth could not exist without the happenings at the edge of the solar system.

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