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A guided tour through the universe--and beyond! From the sun's super-hot core to the many moons of Neptune, we're traveling to the far reaches of our solar system and beyond! Astronomer Dean Regas presents Facts from Space!--an exciting education on everything outside our atmosphere. Inside, you'll discover space facts and celestial trivia, including: * A day on Venus is longer than its year. * Early space missions ejected human waste into space, where it froze into intricate crystals that still float in space today. * After being in space, some astronauts returned to Earth up to 2 inches…mehr

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A guided tour through the universe--and beyond! From the sun's super-hot core to the many moons of Neptune, we're traveling to the far reaches of our solar system and beyond! Astronomer Dean Regas presents Facts from Space!--an exciting education on everything outside our atmosphere. Inside, you'll discover space facts and celestial trivia, including: * A day on Venus is longer than its year. * Early space missions ejected human waste into space, where it froze into intricate crystals that still float in space today. * After being in space, some astronauts returned to Earth up to 2 inches taller than when they left. * The stars in the Big Dipper are shifting among themselves and will look like a "Big Spatula" by the year 75,000. * And more! Packed with fascinating information, it's a stellar read for sci-fi fans and at-home astronomers alike!
Autorenporträt
Dean Regas is the astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory and cohost of the syndicated television program Star Gazers. His writing has appeared in  Astronomy magazine, Sky & Telescope magazine, and HuffPost, and in 2017 he began a podcast called Looking Up. Dean is the author of Facts from Space! , 100 Things to See in the Night Sky (Northern Hemisphere edition) and 100 Things to See in the Night Sky (Sourthern Hemisphere edition).