Welcome to the infographic guide to the most exciting place outside Earth: SPACE! Discover the mind-boggling facts, figures and amazing explorations in eye-popping infographics.

Think you know everything there is to know about space? Think again! This fact-packed bumper book is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about space ... and more!

Take a spin around the planets, dive into the core of the Sun, visit the International Space Station, zoom around the solar system with a comet, travel to distant galaxies, marvel at the many moons and meet Armstrong, Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Gagarin and a load of other famous space-faces

Using vivid colours, graphic visuals and bold designs, this guide brings space to life on the page with a modern and engaging approach to information. Readers will get hours of enjoyment dipping into the vast number of facts and stats in this awesome book.

For children aged 9+, this book is ideal for children studying space and science topics at key stage 2 and would make a brilliant gift for space-crazy kids!

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Kevin Pettman is a writer and editor of children's magazines and annuals.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: See into space;
• 2: Understanding space words;
• 3: How the universe began;
• 4: The Sun: hot facts and figures;
• 5: A meeting with Mercury;
• 6: Venus: a beauty and a beast;
• 7: What on Earth?;
• 8: Over the Moon;
• 9: Get red-y to meet Mars;
• 10: Belting around in orbit;
• 11: Jupiter the giant;
• 12: More marvellous moons;
• 13: Comets close-up;
• 14: Saturn the ring leader;
• 15: Spinning sideways with Uranus;
• 16: On the edge with Neptune;
• 17: Pluto and the other dwarf planets;
• 18: What a star!;
• 19: Galaxies near and far;
• 20: Awesome astronomers;
• 21: Studying space from Earth;
• 22: Amazing astronauts;
• 23: International Space Station;
• 24: Super spacecraft;
• 25: Space around the world;
• 26: The Space Race;
• 27: Space spin-offs;
• 28: Looking for life;
• 29: Weird, wacky and wonderful;
• 30: Space: more things to find;
• 31: Index;