Planets, Moons and Stars Take-Along Guide

This book provides an introduction to the bodies in our solar system. Youngstronomers and explorers will learn to identify our nine planets and how toeek out the shapes in the sky that our ancestors saw thousands of years ago.his book includes information on which planets and constellations you canee with the naked eye or with binoculars, and which ones require telescopes.tatistics, illustrations and interesting facts are included in each section.hat are shooting stars? How has the night sky changed over time? Whichlanet has the most moons? How did Orion get its name? How old is our sun?;tar patterns outlined in the book help readers to find and identifyonstellations. Each page is loaded with illustrations, depicting things likerosscuts of planets to show their composition, craters, rings, moons andsteroids, as well as mythological characters of the constellations, likendromeda, Cassiopeia and Pegasus. New discoveries are included, like thedditional 11 moons of Jupiter that were recently observed. Activitiesnclude making a mobile to get a sense of the planets' alignments, and