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

Name: Super Stars The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way
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ISBN: 9781426306020

ISBN-10: 1426306024

ISBN-13: 9781426306020

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Aguilar

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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..

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 2/23/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 9.37" wide x 9.37" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



The Universe is Green: Life Cycle of Stars


The Dead Zone: Globular Clusters


Cosmic Dry Care: Diffuse Nebulae


Diamonds in the Sky: Open Star Clusters


Failure is an Option: Brown Dwarfs


A Family Affair: Multiple Stars


The Winking Demon: Eclipsing Stars


Fastest Spinning Star: Neutron Stars


Lighthouses in the Sky: Pulsars


Not your Average Star: G Stars


Other Stars with Planets


Seeding the Universe: Life-Giving Stars


Cosmic Tombstones: Planetary Nebulae


Butterflies of the Universe


Boom! There Goes the Neighborhood: Supernovae


Great Balls of Fire: Hypergiants


Cosmic Vacuum Cleaners: Blacks Holes


First Stop Alpha Centauri: Star Quest


Star Charts


Glossary


The Speed of Light


Composition of our Sun


The Stars to Scale


Further Exploration


Acknowledgments


Index