What is the sun? Where does Earth fit into the solar system? Which planet is 1321 times the size of Earth? Learning about space has never been so easy with this compact book of all things space. Interesting facts will have even the most reluctant reader's attention with fun and factual pages! Learn why Saturn is the only planet surrounded by rings, and how many years it takes the farthest planet to orbit the sun!

 

This book is part of a book series called My Little Books Of .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by QED Publishing .

Peter Grego has written around 300 articles on various astronomical topics for a variety of publications, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, posters and books. These include The Telegraph on Sunday, The Sunday Times, Fortean Times, Astronomy Now, Sky at Night, Sky and Telescope, Popular Astronomy and Gnomon. Peter has a wealth of experience in astronomy and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

This book has the following chapters: The Solar System Stars Farther out Exploring space