To ask other readers questions about Stars! Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Read this to see if it would be a good one for my son. He's a little too young for it now, but it has some good information. It has star charts and information on different stars. It also includes tips for stargazing and a few recipes for a stargazing party.
Jul 02, Cheryl rated it liked it. Star charts and bunnies The Amazon blurb says this book is recommended for children 6 - 8 years old. The cute bunny illustrations are perfect for that age group, I believe. This was kind of a hodgepodge book to me. There are recipes, activities - perfect for the age group - but then there are adult level illustrations of solar systems, planets, moon phases, star charts and more.
I enjoyed the book and actually learned from it but I think the teaching materials would be better suited for o Star charts and bunnies I enjoyed the book and actually learned from it but I think the teaching materials would be better suited for older children maybe 8 - 10 years old and without the bunnies.
Or keep the bunnies and put in more age-appropriate teaching materials. The book is beautiful with reinforced binding and lovely dustcover and colorful illustrations.
I, as an adult, especially enjoyed the NASA pictures of the different galaxies and I liked the easy-to-understand star chart. I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review, which I have given. Mar 15, Betty Kim rated it really liked it Shelves: This book also can be appropriate for Kindergarteners to 3rd graders. This book answers lots of different questions about star. For example, sun is the only star in the solar system, and it only takes 8 minutes for the light from the sun star to reach Earth.
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Also, stars are in the sky all day, but because the sun is so bright we cannot see the star during day time. The students will enjoy the book and also this book has very colorful pictures which can be helpful for visual learners. I also learn some information that I did not know before reading this book. Oct 31, Teresa rated it it was amazing Shelves: Her mom lets her invite some friends over and they eat all kinds of star food the book has recipes and ideas for real families , they go to the star museum, and they stargaze in the yard.
This book is full of facts about stars and the solar system with a cute fiction story. Sep 13, Jackie rated it liked it Shelves: Minna, a rabbit, and her friends wonder about the stars in the sky. At the museum, they learn about astronomy and the solar system. Too long for a read-aloud during storytime, but filled with lots of facts to reference.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Stars! Lists with This Book. The back of the book even comes with a bit of info on each planet, as well as some key terms to help them understand the universe a bit more. This one is definitely a keeper in my opinion. Nov 06, Susie rated it liked it Shelves: Learn about the planets. Nov 03, E. Bob Barner writes and illustrates this non-fiction book about space. The book explains about all of the different objects in space such as stars like the sun, planets like Mars and Venus, constellations, and the Milky Way Galaxy.
At the end of the book, there is a picture glossary that briefly explains each of the objects mentioned in the book as well as a list of definitions for words like constellation, moon, and shooting star. This book is space explained simply for ages 2 and up. The vocabula Bob Barner writes and illustrates this non-fiction book about space. The vocabulary is very simple, featuring only one sentence per page. If there is any complex vocabulary, it is mentioned in the glossary, so readers can look it up.
The glossary might be better suited for adults so that they can be the ones to explain these terms to younger children.
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The illustrations are fabulous. They aid the reader by illustrating the text.
For example, when the sun is mentioned, there is a giant illustrated sun on the page. The colors are bright and vivid; using appropriate colors like deep blues, intense black, and fiery oranges, reds, and yellows.
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These are definitely illustrations that would attract a younger audience. The only problem I have with this book is that Pluto is mentioned as a planet, which as of is no longer a planet, but a dwarf planet. This is acceptable, though, because this book was published in Sep 13, Lauren Paravate rated it liked it Shelves: In the story the author takes you through the Solar System and in sort of a poem manner explains what each of the planets are known for. At the end of the story there is a page that the author has created for more facts about each individual planet as well as terms that are used when describing the solar system such as gravity, galaxy, universe, asteroids, etc.
This book has a great take on the solar system that is a combination of facts as well as a poem sort of story line. It made it more engaging because of the way the author wrote the story and then concluded by adding additional facts at the end. I would use this book as an activity when teaching about the solar system. I would use the definitions in the back as a resource as well when explaining other terms that go with the solar system. I would have the students pick their favorite planet and explain why and other facts about it.
Jan 16, Kalynda rated it really liked it Shelves: I found this book delightful. There are aspects where I wonder if it is a "fictional story", but the frame of the story is, as a young child looks up through a telescope in a excited desire to see stars. I had one of those, "oh wait, that's accurate"moments I found this book delightful. I had one of those, "oh wait, that's accurate"moments, that caused me to read closer. Aug 24, Chiara rated it liked it.
Educational picture book with rhyming text and beautiful pictures. The section entitled "Meet the Planets" is more didactic with simpler pictures, suitable for older children. The section "Meet the Universe" is boring, all text and no pictures. There is room for improvement. Oct 18, Erin rated it really liked it Shelves: Dec 01, Narcarsia Cannon rated it it was amazing.
This is a great book for young readers. It not only can be used to introduce poetry, but it is informational as well. Emission nebulae are clouds of high temperature gas. The atoms in the cloud are energized by ultraviolet light from a nearby star and emit radiation as they fall back into lower energy states neon lights glow in much the same way. Emission nebulae are usually red, because hydrogen, the most common gas in the universe, most commonly emits red light.
Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust that simply reflect the light of a nearby star or stars. Reflection nebulae are usually blue, because blue light scatters more easily.
Star Colors and Luminosities: The H-R Diagram
Emission and reflection nebulae are often seen together and are sometimes both referred to as diffuse nebulae. In some nebulae, the star formation regions are so dense and thick that light cannot get through. Not surprisingly, these are called dark nebulae. Another type of nebula, called a planetary nebula, results from the death of a star. When a star has burned through so much material that it can no longer sustain its own fusion reactions, the star's gravity causes it to collapse. As the star collapses, its interior heats up.
The heating of the interior produces a stellar wind that lasts for a few thousand years and blows away the outer layers of the star. When the outer layers have blown away, the remaining core remnant heats the gases, which are now far from the star, and causes them to glow. The resulting "planetary nebulae" so named because they look like gas giant planets through a telescope are shells of glowing gas that surround a small core. Astronomers estimate that our galaxy contains about 10, planetary nebulae. Planetary nebulae are a common part of the normal stellar life cycle, but they are short-lived, lasting only about 25, years.
The life of a star whose mass is greater than 1. When such a star runs out of fuel and collapses, an enormous shock wave sweeps through the star at high speed, blasting away various layers and leaving behind a core called a neutron star and an expanding shell of matter known as a supernova remnant. A supernova's shock wave is much more violent than the stellar wind that marks the end of a low mass star. Near the core of the remnant, electrons emit radiation called "synchrotron radiation" as they spiral toward the neutron star at speeds close to the speed of light. The ultraviolet portion of this radiation can strip electrons off, or "ionize" the outer filaments of the nebula, causing them to glow.
The most famous supernova remnant is the Crab Nebula in Taurus M1 , shown in the image above. The light of the inner core is from synchrotron radiation, while the outer regions glow in many colors from emission of many gases, including red for hydrogen. Absorption due to methane CH 4 is evident.
Some stars fizzle out before their evolutionary life cycle begins; these failed stars are called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas not heavy enough for fusion reactions to ignite in their cores, so their energy output comes only from gravity. Although their existence has been predicted by theory for a long time, they are so cool, dark, and hard to see that the first one was discovered only five years ago. The brown dwarfs with the lowest masses are actually very similar to Jupiter, showing absorption due to methane in their spectra. The last two letters in the temperature classification system for stars, L and T , have been added recently to include brown dwarfs.
The SDSS, in combination with near-infrared follow-up studies, has been found many brown dwarfs because it covers a large area of sky, it can see quite dim objects, and it has a filter in the red part of the spectrum z'.