Titoli in Astronomia e spazio

What do you know about stars? Give curious kids a first look into space.

Discover some of the many contributions women, people of color, immigrants, and people with disabilities made to space exploration. From an engineer in the control room to a mission specialist that went on four space flights, these heroes are transforming how we think of space.

What do you know about astronauts? Give curious kids a first look into space.

What do you know about planet Earth? Give curious kids a first look into space.

Growing up in the 1920s on a dirt-poor farm in North Dakota, Mary Sherman's life was filled with chores—until she finally began school and discovered she loved to learn. Mary excelled at science, especially chemistry, and leaped at the chance to work in a laboratory during World War II designing rocket fuels. And when the US decided to enter the space race, Mary was chosen over her male colleagues to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite.

A journey through the evolving cosmos, considering how human survival will depend on otherworldly perspectives. In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant...

Vad är månen gjord av egentligen? "Ett ägg värpt av en utomjording" säger Naina. "En stor ostboll", kontrar Madhav. Hur löser man en sån diskussion? Man drar ut i rymden och kollar helt enkelt! Men Naina och Madhav får skynda sig tillbaka. Middagen är snart klar. "Stjärnäventyret" är en häpnadsväckande resa bland skimrande enhörningar och gråtande drakar. En radiopjäs med musik och ljud för att fördjupa dig ännu mer i berättelsen.

Sarla wished she could fly high like an eagle or like an aeroplane. Of course you can fly, said her new teacher. Here, Sarla shares all that she has learnt about flight and aeroplanes.

Et døgn på Venus varer kortere tid end et døgn på Venus. Mars har to måner, der hedder Skræk og Rædsel. På den ene halvdel af Uranus er det altid dag. På den anden er det altid nat. Der er tre LEGO-figurer på vej til Jupiter. Temperaturen på Merkur svinger mellem 200 minusgrader og 300 plusgrader.

On April 11, 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were launched into space as the crew of Apollo 13. Their mission, like the missions of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, was to explore the lunar surface. But that mission was never completed. As they began the procedure for landing on the Moon, the spacecraft was rocked by a violent explosion. Oxygen began pouring out of the Service Module, and the spacecraft began to lose power. Jim Lovell radioed Mission Control with the now-famous words, "Houston, we have a problem."

Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." But America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit; later that year, America's first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.

John Farrell takes kids on a rhyming tour of the night sky, from A to Z, with facts about the wonders of space. From distant Andromeda, a galaxy made up of billions of stars, to the constellation of the zodiac, Farrell covers the high points of outer space. How do you find Jupiter or Venus? How does the Moon cause the tides of Earth's shores? How can you find the North Star, and why do all other stars seem to go around it? The answers to these and many other questions are contained in this beautiful volume of science that will delight a young listener's imagination.

Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very Short Introduction audiobook addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how they are characterized and discovered, and what would happen if you came too close to one. 

Flip it! It's 2-books-in-1! Start with a factual fiction story about a friendly rocket named Phoenix who becomes best friends with Pyxi, a space rover. Then listen to a nonfiction exploration of real-life rockets!

Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and smoke from the fires. This layer marks one of the greatest extinctions in Earth history including not just dinosaurs, but also fish, plankton, ammonites, and plants making up about 75% of the known species.

From writer Stacy McAnulty, Our Solar System! A Stellar Neighborhood is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the members of our solar system from the eyes of Comet, who's been traveling through the Solar System for eons. Our Solar System! A Stellar Neighborhood features sound design and...