| International Standard Book Number |
9781464227103
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781464227110
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781464227097
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| International Standard Book Number |
1464227098
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
520
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| Personal Name |
Arcand, Kimberly, 1975- author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
Why space will freak you out : the scariest, strangest parts of the universe / by space experts Dr. Kimberly K. Arcand and Megan Watzke ; illustrations by Robert Ball.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks eXplore, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
111 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Welcome to the solar system - and beware! -- Mercury : the terrifying two-faced planet -- Venus : a choking, crushing, and roasting planet -- Jupiter : the stormiest world in the solar system -- Io : the killer rotten-egg moon -- Saturn : the falling-into-oblivion planet -- Titan : the antifreeze and fertilizer moon -- Enceladus : the saltwater tomb -- Neptune : a windchill for the ages -- The most dangerou places in our galaxy : Poltergeist : a zombie planet around an undead star -- Tres-2B : the planet cloaked in darkness forever -- HD 189733B : the it's-raining-glass-sideways planet -- 55 Cancri E : a scorching planet on a spiral of doom -- Wasp-12B : a world being eaten by its own star -- Eta Carinae : an expanding, exploding brain in space -- Crab nebula : a vortex of deadly energy -- Sagittarius A* : the black hole at the center of our galaxy -- What lies beyond -- Colliding galaxies : clash of the titans -- Magnetars : dead stars that will tear you apart -- Asassn-14LI : turned into spaghetti by a black hole -- Gamma ray bursts : the Hulk meets the Death Star -- Hypervelocity stars : trapped on a runaway stellar train -- 3C321 : when one galaxy attacks another -- Dark matter : controlled by something you can't see -- Dark energy : ultimate emptiness at the universe's end.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In this photo-illustrated outer space book by two NASA scientists, readers will have a blast exploring the scary, creepy, horrific parts of the universe. From rotten-egg moons to zombie planets to spaghettification to real-life death stars, they'll find out just how bonkers space truly is. Open this book if you want to be freaked out just a tad . . . and make sure to read with the lights on!"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Target Audience Note |
Ages 6-10 Sourcebooks eXplore.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Planets Juvenile literature.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Astronomy Juvenile literature.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Juvenile works
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Ball, Robert, 1973- illustrator. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ill
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Watzke, Megan, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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