The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
By Mike Vago
Hardcover
$16.95
By Mike Vago
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The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!
Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!
It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twic...


























