Spacewarp: Colliding Comets and Other Cosmic Catastrophes

✍ Scribed by Fred Watson

• Book ID: 110716175
• Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781742238296

✦ Synopsis

Age range 10+

Why do stars twinkle? How's the best way to start spotting constellations and comets? Is there life beyond Earth? What's the chance of a catastrophic collision with a killer asteroid?

He's covered the big space questions for adults, now Australia's very own Astronomer-at-Large Fred Watson embarks on a grand tour of the Universe especially for children. From stargazing to telescopes, space travel to black holes, killer asteroids to aliens, Fred covers every question kids might ask about space — and then some!

With incredible illustrations by Fred himself, and a quirky mix of mind-boggling facts, Spacewarp is a fascinating book that kids will love — and parents and friends will undoubtedly learn a thing or two as well!