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The Cosmos: An Eye-Opening Look at Our Sun, Its Planets, and Their Moons (Idiot's Guides) Kindle Edition

by Christopher De Pree (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Major new discoveries in space are made almost weekly and there is so much for any new enthusiast to learn and explore. Beginning with the solar system, the Sun, all its planets, major moons, and other features, such as the asteroid belt, Idiot's Guides: The Cosmos is packed with information and features the best photos from various explorations. Beautiful photography and detailed descriptions of the various types of masses are compared to Earth-- making the information as easy to grasp as possible. The book also explores the Milky Way, the various star types, including black holes, galaxy filaments, and much more.

Idiot's Guides: The Cosmos is a fascinating and easy-to-understand exploration of the universe. Dozens of stunning, full-color photos highlight the latest discoveries and beauty of space, including the solar system, the Sun, the asteroid belt, the Milky Way, various star types, black holes, and more.
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    October 7, 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NIA2CLO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK (October 7, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 277161 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
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Christopher De Pree

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Chris De Pree was born in Hong Kong, and grew up there, in New York City, and in the San Francisco Bay area. He studied Physics and drew a weekly cartoon at Duke University, and received his PhD in Physics from UNC Chapel Hill. During graduate school, he spent two years in Socorro, NM as a graduate student, completing his research on high mass star formation using the Very Large Array (VLA).

After teaching Physics & Astronomy at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA for 25 years, Chris joined the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) as the Director of the National Radio Dynamic Zone (NRDZ) Project. In case you are wondering, NRDZ is in fact pronounced "nerds".

Chris loves to share his excitement about astronomy and physics with the widest audience possible, and has written a number of popular science books. He also enjoys reading and writing speculative fiction.

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Mustard Seed Ministries
5.0 out of 5 stars Great starting place
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019
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Great read to get a mini overview. This door opens the door to a million questions and more reading on topics of personal interest.
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CharlieBOOKFAN
2.0 out of 5 stars Text is too tiny, kindle version needs to be updated!
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Just like another reviewer said the Kindle version of this book is extremely flawed because the text is extremely small and it doesn't allow you to change the size of the text or to change the font or the margins or the background color or any of that plus in the contents section it doesn't allow you to click on a certain area or chapter and go straight to that part of the book like most Kindle books have now which allow that function as well as everything else and you need that in particular with educational books like this so because of all this which this book is lacking it's impossible to give this book a good rating really, you can zoom in but doing that all the time will really slow you down because then it won't fit the entire page of the book on your screen and you will have to be constantly moving each page around to see everything so it's not convenient at all like if you could just increase the size of the text so that's better than nothing for sure having the zoom alfunction but it's not nearly as good as if you could just change the size of the text but I'm giving this book 2 Stars total instead of just 1 like the other reviewer gave that has the same complaints because I got it on sale for just $1.99 so I will give 1 more star for that because I think it's worth that much but it wouldn't be worth anything much more plus on my tablet it's a little bit more readable compared to my phone where the text is so extremely small it's almost impossible to read but I love reading and learning about space, the planets, the cosmos Etc and the information seems to be fine but if they did an update that allowed you to increase the size of the text etc. this book could be great but with the tiny text that it has it's nearly impossible to read, I can see it and read it but it's just really uncomfortable to look at the tiny text for very long and I have pretty good eye sight up close also but a lot of people for sure wouldn't be able to read it at all and on my tablet it's definitely easier to read for sure but the text is still too small really to be completely comfortable so if people want to read and learn about the cosmos or anything really you want it to be a more comfortable and less strenuous experience then it is with this book because the text is just so incredibly tiny.
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