DK Space Encyclopedia

by Nigel Henbest, Nigel Henbest

In the tradition of DK's acclaimed Children's Encyclopedia series, the DK Space Encyclopedia is a comprehensive school, library, and home reference to the fascinating world of space, from strange phenomena like black holes to the latest stunning images from the Hubble Telescope. Covering cosmology, astrophysics, astronomy, and space exploration, the book's clear, informative text and thousands of photos, graphics, cross sections, maps, and charts give children age 8 and up an absorbing, unparalleled view of our universe.

Genres: Science, Space, Reference, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 10, 1999

About the author

Educated in Northern Ireland and at Leicester University where he studied physics, chemistry and astronomy. He did postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge but left to become a science writer. He has written 36 books and over 1,000 articles on astronomy and space many of them in collaboration with Heather Couper. Previously he has been Astronomy Consultant to New Scientist magazine, editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association and media consultant to the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Along with Couper and Stuart Carter, director of the Channel 4 series The Stars he set up Pioneer Productions and now develops ideas and proposals for that company.

Reviews

[Benjamin Sionit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, I would give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Even though this book has encyclopedia in the title, it is nothing like any other encyclopedia I have seen. This is because of how it gives great explanations paired with great pictures adding to what it says in the book. My favorite part of the book was the pages about the different kinds of radiation, and their usefulness in our lives (and astronomy). I liked this because it told you how long the frequencies of each kind of radiation was with higher frequency types of radiation having wavelengths that could be smaller than atoms. I also liked the pages that talked about gravity, and how a black hole has gravity so strong not even light can escape after entering its event horizon. This made me think about all the different kinds of astronomy in the world, and how destructive black holes could be. Even though I like this book very much, it wasn't perfect. This was because I felt some pages, like the ones describing the planets in the solar system, cold be condensed into smaller pieces of info. Other pages had so little writing it left out very important details. If there was another edition of this book, I wish it would have almost equal paragraph sizes per page. oOverall, I liked this book, and would recommend it to people who have any interest in astronomy, and even physics.

[Veronica]

I want to know why cant i read it