Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way

Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way

by David A. Aguilar
Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way

Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way

by David A. Aguilar

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Overview

Everyone knows that those bright, white dots in the night sky are stars; but how many of us really know what stars are, how they are born, how their lives affect ours, and how they die. SuperStars! is a book to expand the knowledge and fire the imaginations of stargazers everywhere. Expert David Aguilar guides young readers through a galaxy of stars, including the biggest, wariest, and most explosive, not to mention star daycares and "diamonds in the sky". SuperStars! is a title that will intrigue kids and bring all those mesmerizing little dots of light in the night sky to life..

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781426306013
Publisher: Disney Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/23/2010
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile: NC1160L (what's this?)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

David A. Aguilar is the author and illustrator of several books from National Geographic. His 13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System received the Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Gold Award from the California Reading Association. His writings are widely recognized for their ability to communicate the wonderment of science to enthusiasts of all ages. He is the originator of the Science Discovery program at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the popular host of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Observatory Nights program; and the past director of the Fiske Planetarium.
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