Space Exploration | Burleson Public Library

1) One giant leap: Neil Armstrong's stellar American journey

Author

Wagener, Leon

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Book, Large Print

2) Astronomy

Series

STEM kits

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The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in a user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

3) Astronomical mindfulness: your cosmic guide to reconnecting with the sun, moon, stars, and planets

Author

De Pree, Christopher Gordon

4) Space in 30 seconds

Author

Gifford, Clive

5) The story of the universe in 100 stars

Author

Freistetter, Florian

6) Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?

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Discover how Neil deGrasse Tyson became one of the world’s most successful and well-known scientists in this new addition to the #1 New York Times When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, he discovered the world of astronomy and felt like the universe was calling to him. He answered that call by diving deep into...

7) The Astronomy book

8) Seeing stars

Author

Gillingham, Sara

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Illustrated guide to the 88 internationally recognized constellations with stories and legends. Includes key star information, location descriptions, and maps.

9) Mae Jemison: awesome astronaut

Author

Wheeler, Jill C

Series

Checkerboard biography library. Women in science

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Book, eBook

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Profiles the life and career of astronaut Mae Jemison.

10) Natural satellites: the book of moons

Author

Miller, Ron

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Book, eBook

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For centuries, astronomers have placed a special interest on the other planets of the solar system. But with the advent of spacecraft and the tremendous missions undertaken by the Voyager and Cassini probes, astronomers have discovered that the natural satellites of the planets-the solar system's moons-are some of the most extraordinary places imaginable. There are moons with towering geysers, erupting volcanoes, and subterranean oceans of warm, mineral-rich...

11) Space, humans, and farts

Author

Gutman, Dan

Series

My weird school fast facts

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Book, eBook

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"A million hundred WeiRd facts about science and the universe!" -- front cover.

12) The zoomable universe: an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing

Author

Scharf, Caleb A

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In The Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10^27 metersabout 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time...

13) Black hole blues: and other songs from outer space

Author

Levin, Janna

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"In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation ($1 billion-plus)....

14) Sun!: one in a billion

Author

McAnulty, Stacy

Series

Our universe volume 2

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"Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star--he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Sun in this next celestial "autobiography." Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully illustrated, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years."--Amazon.com.

15) Introduction to general relativity, black holes, and cosmology

Author

Choquet-Bruhat, Yvonne

16) stargazing with binoculars

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17) The art of urban astronomy: a guide to stargazing wherever you are

Author

Beall, Abigail

18) Black hole apocalypse

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Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.

19) The stuff between the stars: how Vera Rubin discovered most of the universe

Author

Nickel, Sandra

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Book, eBook

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An inspired biographical picture book about a female astronomer who makes huge discoveries about the mysteries of the night sky and changed the way we look at the universe Vera Rubin was one of the astronomers who discovered and named dark matter, the thing that keeps the universe hanging together. Throughout her career she was never taken seriously as a scientist because she was one of the only female astronomers at that time, but she didn't let...

20) Stargazing with a telescope

Author

Scagell, Robin