My First Space Atlas 9781681888897, 1681888890

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Night Sky
3, 2, 1, Blastoff!
Living in Space
Ready for a Spacewalk?
A Trip to the Moon
Our Very Own Star
Meet the Neighbors
Who Lives on Mars?
Space Junk
Postcards from the Planets
Welcome to the Milky Way!
The Universe
Looking up at Space
Space Words
Index

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MY FIRST

SPACE

ATLAS Illustrated by Paul Daviz Written by Jane Wilsher

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Illustrated by Paul Daviz Written by Jane Wilsher Space Consultant – Professor Ben Maughan, University of Bristol

Copyright © EarthAware Kids, 2023 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Published by EarthAware Kids Created by Weldon Owen Children’s Books A subsidiary of Insight International, LP. PO Box 3088 San Rafael, CA 94912 www.insighteditions.com Weldon Owen Children’s Books Editor: Catherine Ard Designer: Tory Gordon-Harris Senior Production Manager: Greg Steffen Art Director: Stuart Smith Publisher: Sue Grabham Insight Editions Publisher: Raoul Goff ISBN: 978-1-68188-889-7 Manufactured, printed, and assembled in China First printing October, 2022 XYP1022

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CONTENTS The Night Sky

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3, 2, 1, Blastoff!

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Living in Space

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Ready for a Spacewalk?

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A Trip to the Moon

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Our Very Own Star

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Meet the Neighbors

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Who Lives on Mars?

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Space Junk

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Postcards from the Planets

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Welcome to the Milky Way!

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The Universe

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Looking up at Space

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Space Words

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Index

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THE NIGHT SKY Look up! Every night, the sky puts on a dazzling light show. It is hard to believe, but you are staring deep into Space. Each tiny, twinkling light that you see is a distant star or planet. There is the friendly face of the Moon, too. It gazes down on you as you gaze back. Now think about this as you look up at the night sky. You are standing on a big, round, rocky planet. This is Earth, your home. Earth feels so unbelievably big, but it is just one small planet among billions in this enormous place called Space.

Moon

MOON BUNNY

The Moon has dark patches on its surface. Some people think they look like a rabbit with two long ears. What do you see?

BLAZING FIREBALLS

This light zooming across the sky is a space rock that has come close to Earth. It turns into a ball of fire called a shooting star.

shooting star

WARM BLANKET

Earth has an invisible layer of air that you breathe called the atmosphere. It keeps the Earth nice and warm.

STARGAZING

What can you see in the night sky? In towns and cities, the glow of street lights makes it harder to see the stars.

What can you see in the night sky?

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airplane

shooting star

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SPOT IT

Venus

BRIGHT PLANETS STARRY SKY

On a clear night, you might see a hazy band of light. This is the Milky Way—our own galaxy, which is filled with billions of stars.

Some of the brightest lights in the night sky are planets. The most visible one is Venus.

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H pe op ow man y le at th are loo ki e nig ht sk ng Can y y? zoom ou see a ing i r nto o cke t Spac e?

International Space Station

MOVING LIGHTS LOOKING CLOSER

People can look at the night sky through a telescope. It makes distant things look bigger and brighter.

Astronauts work on the International Space Station, or ISS. Look out for its glimmering lights moving across the sky.

rocket telescope observatory

SUPER TELESCOPE

Inside an observatory, there is a powerful telescope. The building’s domed roof opens up to the stars.

Moon

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rocket

Milky Way

planet

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3, 2, 1, BLASTOFF!

3. Crew capsule docks at ISS.

Imagine you are an astronaut in a rocket launching into Space. The engines roar and the rocket shakes and rattles as it picks up speed. You can hear people talking to you over the radio. They are part of a team of scientists at Mission Control, and they make sure everything goes like clockwork. In just eight minutes, you will leave Earth far behind and enter the blackness of Space. Spacecraft take off from a huge space center. It takes years to prepare for a rocket launch. Astronauts need to train for life in Space and practice the jobs they will do when they get there.

SPOoTu sIeTe! the

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crew capsule

CREW CAPSULE

The astronauts travel inside a small capsule at the top of the rocket. Only this part of the rocket goes all the way to Space.

crew capsule

2. Second fuel tank falls away.

fuel tanks

FULL TANKS

International Space Station

A rocket uses lots of fuel to blast into Space. When the fuel tanks are empty, they fall back to Earth.

fuel tank

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fuel tanks

1. First fuel tank falls away.

BLASTOFF

SHAKING

The rocket makes a rumbling roar as it lifts off. Onlookers can feel the ground shaking under their feet.

CHEERING CROWD

Powerful engines help lift the rocket into the sky.

fuel tank

Lots of people go to watch the launch. The viewing stand is a safe distance from the rocket. engines

BURNING UP Flames and smoke billow from the rocket’s engines.

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What happens after liftoff?

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LIVING IN SPACE Ready to dock! Just imagine, you have spent 19 hours in a rocket traveling from Earth. Now it is time to join the International Space Station, or ISS. The ISS moves incredibly quickly, taking just 90 minutes to zoom around our planet. For the next six months, this huge machine will be home. Astronauts from around the world work, eat, exercise, and sleep here, just like on Earth. The difference is that in Space things are weightless—astronauts and objects float around if they are not held down.

sleeping bag

SWEET DREAMS

crew capsule

Sleeping bags are fixed to the wall. This stops astronauts drifting away when they doze off!

NEW ARRIVALS

When a rocket arrives, it joins onto the International Space Station. This is called docking. Moon

TOILET TIME

A special toilet sucks away waste and blasts it into Space. toilet drink pouch

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What does an astronaut do on the ISS?

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7 A.M.

breakfast

8 A.M.

exercise

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CALLING EARTH

Astronauts use a computer to phone home. They wear a headset to chat to their families.

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headset

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Earth

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Wh in t at are he s t cien he pla How n ce l ab ts ma for? n can y as tro you n see auts ?

COW

SPACE GYM

A daily run on a treadmill keeps astronauts fit and strong. .

SCIENCE LAB

Astronauts carry out experiments. They study how plants grow in Space.

monitor screen

NO COOKIES!

COMFY CLOTHES

Crumbly food is not allowed. Crumbs can float into machines and break them.

Astronauts do not need to wear spacesuits inside the ISS. They wear normal clothes.

MINTY MOUTHFUL

Toothpaste has to be swallowed. There are no sinks to spit into.

1 P.M.

lunch

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3 P.M.

spacewalk

7 P.M.

dinner

9:30 P.M.

bedtime

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READY FOR A SPACEWALK ?

tether

What do you think it would feel like to go on a spacewalk? You would have to put on a bulky spacesuit and helmet, then open the hatch door and float out into the darkness. Imagine the views of Earth far below! A special cable, called a tether, keeps astronauts safely attached to the space station while they are outside. There are lots of important jobs to do, such as making repairs, testing equipment, and taking photos. Say, ‘Cheese!’

SUNNY SPACE

mechanical arm

HELMET CHAT

Huge solar panels collect energy from the Sun and turn it into electricty for use on the space station.

There’s a radio inside the helmet to speak with the crew.

THE EARTH LOOKS BLUE!

International Space Station (ISS)

solar panels wrist mirror

WARM HANDS Thick gloves are heated at the fingertips. Earth

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Can you find these things astronauts use?

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camera

wrist mirror

tether

visor

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HANDY PACK

This backpack provides air and drinking water. It also has jet thrusters, which can zoom the astronaut back to the space station.

BRIGHT LIGHT

A shiny gold visor protects the eyes from the Sun.

SPOT IT!

Wh as tro at are th e nau on th ts wearin eir h ands g Whic ? h blue as tronau s trip es on t has spac t esuit heir ?

SUPER SNAPS

Astronauts send photos of the repairs they make back to Earth. camera

BENDY SUIT

A spacesuit has fourteen layers. It is shaped in segments, like a caterpillar, so the astronaut can move easily.

WHO’S WHO?

You can tell the astronauts apart by the differentcolored stripes on their spacesuits.

gloves

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astronaut

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A TRIP TO THE MOON Shut your eyes and imagine you are on the Moon, bumping along in a moon buggy. Watch out for the holes! This special car is called a lunar rover. There are no sides or roof, just seats, wheels, and a floor. It can fold up to fit inside a rocket. Look! There is our beautiful blue and green planet in the distance. From the Moon, you can see Earth’s land, its oceans, and the clouds drifting across it. The Moon is very different. There are no trees or water, but there is still plenty to explore. You can collect moon rocks and take pictures of everything you see.

Earth

LASTING PRINTS

Tracks made in the dusty surface stay forever. There is no wind or rain to wear them away. lunar rover

footprints

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Have you noticed how the Moon’s shape seems to change in the night sky?

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crescent moon

first quarter

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MOON MOVIE

antenna

Can you see the camera? Its pictures are sent back to Earth by the antenna.

SPOT I

T!

C foo an you tpri nts find th How in t ma he d e ny w the us t? luna hee l r ro ver s do es hav e?

camera

TOUGH TIRES

Special metal wheels stop the lunar rover from sinking into the soft, dusty ground.

LUNAR LANDSCAPE

The Moon has mountains and valleys and wide, flat areas.

crater

HUGE HOLES

Bowl-shaped holes called craters cover the surface. They were made by giant space rocks that crashed into the Moon.

full moon

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last quarter

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OUR VERY OWN STAR What do you think this giant ball of fire might be? It is our star in Space—the Sun! It is hard to believe, but the sunshine that warms your face on a summer’s day and peeps through the curtains every morning comes from this huge, superhot star. The Sun’s rays travel millions of miles through Space to reach us. Everything that lives on Earth needs the Sun to survive. It gives us heat and light and helps plants to grow. Astronauts cannot visit the Sun, because it is much too hot and too far way. Instead, we send spacecraft with no people on board called probes. They gather information and send it back to Earth, where scientists examine the findings.

HOW HOT?

The surface of the Sun is five times hotter than any volcano erupting on Earth.

SCORCHING CORONA

The corona is a layer of glowing gases that surrounds the Sun. It is 100 times hotter than the Sun’s surface.

SPOT THE DOTS

Darker patches on the Sun are called sunspots. They are cooler than other parts of the surface.

What does the Sun give us?

light

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SPOT IT!

Can yo solar p u see the anel space s on the probe ? How m any so can yo lar flares u see?

BIG EXPLOSIONS!

The bright flashes on the Sun’s surface are called solar flares. They sometimes shoot hot material into Space.

solar flare

heat shield

HOT WORK

A special shield protects the probe from the Sun’s heat.

HOW BIG?

If the Sun was hollow, more than a million Earths could fit inside it.

solar panel

space probe

SPACE SPY

A probe circles around the Sun and studies it close up.

DON’T LOOK!

Never look directly at the Sun. It can burn your eyes.

sunshine for plants

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warmth

energy

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asteroid belt

ROCK BAND

Asteroids are lumps of space rock. There are nearly two million of them floating in a band called the asteroid belt.

Venus

SPACE GIANT Neptune

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

TOO COLD

Planets that are furthest from the Sun are freezing cold.

Jupiter

MEET THE NEIGHBORS

Uranus

KNOCKED OVER

Scientists think a giant

rock may have crashed If you were able to zoom far out into Space and into Uranus. Now it is look around, you would see the Solar System—our tipped on its side. neighborhood in Space. Right in the middle is the fiery Sun. Moving around the Sun, there are eight giant planets, including Earth. Can you find our planet? There are millions of big and small rocks, too. In Space, everything is always on the move. The planets travel around the Sun in loops called orbits. They also spin nonstop. You cannot feel it, but Earth is spinning at 1,000 miles per hour as you read this!

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What is in the Solar System?

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Sun

planets

dwarf planets

moons

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SUPER STAR

The Sun is the huge star that gives us light and heat.

Mercury

TOO HOT

The planets that are nearest to the Sun are very hot.

NEIGHBORS Mars is our next-door neighbor in Space.

Mars

OUR HOME

Earth is the only planet in the Solar System with plants, people, and animals. Earth Moon

ROCKY RINGS

Lumps of ice and rock make rings around Saturn. Some pieces are tiny. Others are as big as a house.

Saturn

SPOT IT!

Can yo u see a plane t with a red spot? How m any pl ane ts have r aroun ings d them ?

LITTLE ONES

There are five dwarf planets in the Solar System. They are too small to be real planets. Pluto is the largest of them.

LOOPY LAPS Pluto

comets

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The blue lines show the routes that the planets take around the Sun.

asteroids

meteoroids

meteors

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WHO LIVES ON MARS?

Deimos

Do you know what this roaming robot is doing? It is a Mars rover on a mission to explore our nearest neighbor in Space. So far, no humans have set foot on this rocky red planet. Probes and rovers controlled by people on Earth are sent to discover more about Mars. The rovers carry special tools and science equipment to search for signs of life. Scientists want to know whether people could live here one day. Would you like to visit Mars? Although it is the closest planet to Earth, it is millions of miles away. It would take about nine months on board a speeding rocket to get there!

ROVING EXPLORER

A rover spends years exploring and sending pictures and information back to Earth.

camera

Mars rover

BUMPY RIDE

Six springy wheels help the rover roll over knee-high rocks. wheels

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TWO MOONS

Mars has two moons. One is called Phobos and the other is called Deimos. They are both much smaller than Earth’s moon.

SPOT IT!

How m any can yo moons u see? Can yo u see a c that s e n d s p a me r a i c tur back t o Ear t es h?

How do rovers land? 1. Parachute goes up!

Phobos

ROCKY LANDSCAPE

rover capsule

Mars has tall mountains, huge volcanoes, and deep valleys. So far, the only water the rovers have found is ice.

Mars helicopter

2. Rover detaches.

HIGH FLYER

HANDY ARM

A little helicopter gives a bird’s eye view of the landscape and can land in places that a rover cannot reach.

The end of the robotic arm can hold tools for collecting and testing rocks.

folded rover

3. Jets on! robotic arm

jets

4. Rover unfolds . . .

SPACE GARDENING

Scientists believe that peas, carrots, and other vegetables could be grown in the soil on Mars.

. . . and is ready to explore!

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satellite

LOOK OUT!

Scientists on Earth send radio waves into Space to track lumps of junk so that space missions can keep clear.

Earth

beam of radio waves

SPACE JUNK Watch out! In Space, you will need to dodge space junk and avoid flying litter. Bolts, screws, astronauts’ tools, and bits of old rockets are just some of the things that you could see whizzing past on their route around Earth. All this junk has come from our planet. We need to clean up Space to make it safe for future missions. Even tiny objects are dangerous when they are speeding along at 17,000 miles per hour!

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Can you spot this space junk?

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camera

pliers

screw

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STAY CLEAR!

The International Space Station has to move its position if there is space junk in its path.

SPOT IT!

International Space Station

How m as tron any droppe d auts’ g loves c an you se e? Can yo u see t he b of rad io wav eam es?

SPEEDY PAINT

Tiny paint flecks from rockets cause serious damage if they crash into spacecraft at high speeds.

BROKEN MACHINES

There are thousands of communication machines called satellites in Space. When they break, they are stuck there.

broken satellite

WHOOPS!

Cameras, gloves, and other objects were dropped by astronauts on spacewalks.

YELLOW ICE

Astronauts’ pee is dumped into Space and freezes into crystals.

toothbrush

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bolt

wrist mirror

spatula

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Sun Mercury

VENUS MERCURY

This is THE place to spend your birthday. One day on Mercury lasts for 58 Earth days!

Venus

Yuk! This planet smells of bad eggs! It is boiling hot and there are fiery volcanoes and acid rain.

Earth

Mars

Asteroid belt

POSTCARDS FROM THE PLANETS What would you discover if you could whiz off into the Solar System? After visiting each of the eight planets, you would have very different adventures to write about on your postcards home. Some planets are boiling hot and some are freezing cold. The planets are a rainbow of colors because they are made from different rocks and gases. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are dry and rocky. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are balls of swirling gas. If you tried to land on the gas planets, you would fall straight through!

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What are the planets in the Solar System?

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SATURNu were

o Wish y e views on h T ! here t of are ou n n r Satu ve rld. Se this wo de from a rings m of ice and s chunk rkle in the pa s d more k c ro counte far . . . e v a h sky. I ns so 0 moo than 8

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

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SPOT IT!

MARS

How m any blu plane t e s can y ou see ? Which is the r ed plane t ?

Spending a few y, days on this dust e er Th . et an pl rocky are huge dust storms that last d. for weeks on en d in In fact, the w ht is picking up rig now. Yikes!

JUPITER

Greeting s giant ga from this s planet . The weather is storm th bad! A re bigger th e times a been rag n Earth has ing here hundred fo s of year r s.

Jupiter

Saturn

URANUS

This planet is icy, smelly, and covered in a slushy ocean. The wind is full of ice crystals, too. Brrrrrr!

Uranus

NEPTUNE

Neptune

Mars

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Jupiter

This stop is billion m over two iles from Ea It remind s me of U rth. ranus, because it is ver y co and icy. T here is th ld ick fog and th e stops blo wind never wing.

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

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WELCOME TO THE MILKY WAY! Imagine a place so gigantic that it would take a rocket millions of years to fly from one side to the other. You live inside that place—it is a galaxy! A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and planets. Planet Earth and everything in the Solar System are in a swirly galaxy called the Milky Way. On a clear night, when you look up at the sky you see thousands of higgledy-piggledy stars splattered like paint. This is not the whole of Space that you see, but just the stars in our little corner of the Milky Way.

HOW FAR?

After the Sun, the next nearest star to Earth is 24 trillion miles away! It is called Proxima Centauri.

HUNGRY HOLE

There is a supermassive black hole hidden at the center of our galaxy! Black holes suck in anything that comes too close.

spiral arm

LONG ARMS

The Milky Way is a spiral shape with four long, curving arms.

What is in the Milky Way?

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YOU ARE HERE

clouds of dust

thousands of nebulas

millions of black holes

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ANYONE THERE? SPILT MILK

Can you guess how the Milky Way got its name? From Earth the stars look like tiny drops of milk splashed across the sky.

SPOT IT!

Our galaxy has billions of planets and moons that move around stars like our Sun. Scientists study them for signs of life.

Whe re the s can you f uper ind black massive hole? Can you s ee a nebu la?

single star

bright stars

STAR BABIES

The glowing colored lights are giant clouds of dust and gas called nebulas. They are where new stars are born. nebula

hundreds of billions of planets

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hundreds of billions of moons

hundreds of billions of stars

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THE UNIVERSE What would you see if you could zoom to the far reaches of Outer Space? You would find an inky blackness peppered with 100 billion glowing galaxies, each one packed with billions of stars. All of the galaxies and absolutely everything in Space is called the Universe. The Earth and the Sun are just tiny pinpricks inside one galaxy called the Milky Way. The Universe is more enormous than anyone can imagine! It stretches further than the most powerful telescope can see. Scientists think that the Universe is still growing and getting bigger every day! There is so much left to discover. Where would you like to explore?

YOU ARE HERE Milky Way

lenticular galaxy

MYSTERIOUS MATTER

Most of the Universe is made up of invisible stuff called dark matter. Scientists know it exists because it pulls and bends things nearby.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. It can sometimes be seen from Earth as a bright smudge in the night sky.

irregular galaxy Andromeda

far-off galaxy

FAR AND AWAY

The most distant galaxies look like faint red smudges, even when using the biggest telescopes.

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What are the different galaxy shapes?

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elliptical

spiral

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SPOT IT!

Can yo u see a black hole? How m any sp ira galaxi es can l you sp ot?

HOW BIG?

Each one of these glowing specks is a galaxy filled with billions of stars.

spiral galaxy

elliptical galaxy

GALAXY SHAPES

Galaxies come in different shapes. Many are spirals, but they can also look like hats, balls, eggs, or strange blobs. black hole

BLACK HOLES

When a very big star dies, it explodes and turns into a black hole. Black holes suck in everything around them—even stars.

lenticular

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irregular

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LOOKING UP AT SPACE You can be a space explorer without ever leaving planet Earth. Space scientists study the Moon, stars, and planets using powerful telescopes that show faraway things up close. There are different kinds of telescope. A radio telescope looks like a huge bowl. It picks up invisible radio waves and shows us things we can’t see with our eyes. Another type of telescope sits inside a domed building called an observatory. The roof opens and the telescope points upward to the glittering night sky above. The best views of all come from space telescopes. These powerful machines are launched into Space by rockets. They send pictures and information back to Earth.

radio telescope

TUNE IN

Radio telescopes pick up energy from invisible things, such as black holes.

DAY AND NIGHT

A radio telescope receives information 24 hours a day.

What do we use to study Space?

binoculars

telescope

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crescent moon Venus

SPOT IT!

Can yo u see plane t Venu the s in th night e sky? Which telesc ope looks like a bowl?

SPACE SPIES

Thousands of miles above Earth, space telescopes look far out into the Universe.

opening for telescope

observatory

MOVE IT

The telescope can swivel and point in different directions. This allows it to see the whole sky.

telescope

BIG TELESCOPE

Telescopes detect light from stars, planets, and galaxies. They work best on cloudless nights.

radio telescope

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STARGAZERS

Often, an observatory allows visitors to take a look at the telescope.

observatory

James Webb space telescope

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SPACE WORDS ANTENNA —a machine that sends and receives radio signals.

ASTEROID—an oddly shaped rock that travels around the Sun in Space. Some asteroids are the size of a car, and others are hundreds of miles wide.

ASTEROID BELT—a band of nearly two

million space rocks, or asteroids, surrounding the Sun.

ASTRONAUT—a person who travels into Space.

ATMOSPHERE—an invisible layer of gases that surrounds a planet, moon, or star.

BLACK HOLE—a huge place in Space,

DWARF PLANET—an object too small

created when a big star explodes. Nothing can escape from a black hole – including light.

to be a proper planet. Scientists have named five in our Solar System, including Pluto.

CAPSULE—the top part of a rocket

GALAXY—a huge collection of stars, planets, gas and dust. Galaxies come in many different shapes and can have billions of stars in them. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.

that goes all the way to Space.

COMET—a large object with a long tail, made from dust and ice.

CRATER —a large, bowl-shaped dip

in the ground, caused by a space rock, or meteorite.

HATCH—a door in a spacecraft.

DOCK—when a rocket capsule

that burns up in the atmosphere. It is also called a shooting star.

attaches to the International Space Station.

METEOR —a fast-traveling space rock

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METEORITE—a small space rock that

PROBE—a spacecraft without

METEOROID—a piece of space rock

ROCKET—a vehicle used for

collides with a planet.

that has broken off from an asteroid or comet. Meteoroids can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a car.

MISSION CONTROL—a team of space

experts on Earth. They make sure that space travel and life on the International Space Station runs smoothly.

MOON—an object that travels

around a planet or asteroid. Earth has one moon, Mars has two moons, and Saturn has more than 80.

NEBULA —a giant cloud of dust or

gas in Space.

OBSERVATORY—a building containing a powerful telescope for looking into Space.

ORBIT—the curved path a planet,

satellite, or spacecraft takes as it travels around another object.

PLANET—a large, round object in

any people on board.

traveling into Space.

ROVER —a vehicle without doors or

a roof for exploring the surface of a planet or a moon.

SATELLITE —any object that travels

around another object in Space. This can be a communication machine circling Earth or a spacecraft zooming around another planet.

SHOOTING STAR —a space rock that

moves very quickly through the sky, burning up when it comes close to Earth. It is also called a meteor.

SOLAR PANEL—a piece of equipment

that captures sunlight and turns it into electricity.

STAR —a ball of gas that shines in the sky. Earth’s star is the Sun.

SUN—the star at the center of the

Solar System. Its heat and light allow plants, humans, and animals to live on Earth.

TELESCOPE— an instrument used to see things that are very far away. They can be based on Earth or sent into Outer Space.

UNIVERSE—all of Space and

everything that has ever existed in it—planets, stars, galaxies, energy, and time.

SOLAR SYSTEM —the eight planets, including Earth, and the dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that travel around the Sun.

Space that travels around the Sun or another star.

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INDEX A

air 4, 11 Andromeda 26 antenna 13 asteroid 16, 17 asteroid belt 16, 22 astronaut 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 21 atmosphere 4

B

black hole 24, 27

C

camera 10, 11, 13, 18, 20 capsule 6, 8 rover capsule 19 comet 17 corona 14 crater 13

D

dark matter 26 dock 6, 8 docking 8 dust 24, 25 dust storm 23 dusty surface 12, 13, 23 see also nebula dwarf planet 16, 17

E

Earth 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26

H

hatch 10 helmet 10

I

ice 17, 19, 21, 22, 23 International Space Station, the 5, 6, 8–9, 10, 11, 21

J

jet thruster 11 Jupiter 16, 22, 23

L

launch 6, 7, 28 lunar rover see rover

M

Mars 17, 18–19, 22, 23 Mars rover see rover Mercury 17, 22 meteor 17 meteoroid 17 Milky Way, the 5, 24–25, 26 mission 18, 20 Mission Control 6 Moon, the 4, 5, 8, 12–13, 17, 19, 28, 29 moons 16, 19, 22, 25

N

R

rocket 5, 6–7, 8, 12, 18, 20, 21, 24, 28 rover lunar 12, 13 Mars 18, 19

S

satellite 20, 21 Saturn 17, 22, 23 scientist 6, 14, 16, 18, 20, 25, 26, 28 shooting star 4 solar flare see Sun, the solar panel 10, 15 Solar System, the 16–17, 22–23, 24 Space 4, 6, 8–9, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 28 space mission see mission space station see International Space Station spacecraft 6, 14, 21 spacesuit 9, 10, 11 spacewalk 9, 10–11 Sun, the 10, 14–15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26 solar flare 15 sunspots 14

T

nebula 24, 25 Neptune 16, 22, 23

telescope 5, 26, 28–29 tether 10 toilet 8

O

U

fuel 6, 7 fuel tank 6, 7

observatory 5, 28, 29 orbit 16 Outer Space see Space

Universe, the 26–27, 29 Uranus 16, 22, 23

G

P

Venus 5, 16, 22, 29 visor 10, 11

F

galaxy 5, 24, 25, 26–27 see also Milky Way gas 14, 22, 24, 25 gas planet 22 see also nebula glove 10, 11, 21

pee 21 see also toilet Pluto 17 probe 14, 15, 18

V

W

water 11, 12, 19

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