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All About Planets (and More)

Why Mars sunsets are blue, how many moons Jupiter has, what Saturn's rings are actually made of, and why Mercury has ice despite being closest to the Sun. Planet guides written to be read aloud in the car or at bedtime. Each one is short enough to finish before someone falls asleep and deep enough to make them ask the next question. Which is the whole point.

Saturn: The Planet That Wore Its Crown Late

Saturn: The Planet That Wore Its Crown Late

Saturn's rings may have formed while dinosaurs walked the Earth. The planet is 4.5 billion years old, but its rings are perhaps only 100 million. They are slowly disappearing. We just happen to be alive at the right time to see them

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Jupiter: The Planet That Could Have Been a Star

280 characters: "Beneath Europa's smooth shell of ice lies a saltwater ocean that may contain twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. A spacecraft is on its way right now to find out if something could be living in it. Nobody knows yet. That is the best kind of answer

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Mars: The Planet We Almost Recognise

Sunsets on Mars are blue. On Earth, scattered light gives us red and orange sunsets. On Mars, fine dust in the atmosphere scatters the light differently, and the Sun sets in a cold, quiet blue. It is one of the most unexpectedly moving pictures ever taken on another planet.

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Venus: Earth's Twin That Chose a Very Different Life

Venus is almost exactly the same size as Earth, made from the same stuff, born in the same part of space. Scientists once imagined oceans and jungles. What they found was a scorching world of volcanoes and acid rain that never reaches the ground

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Mercury: The Planet That Shouldn't Make Sense

Mercury, the closest planet to the scorching Sun, has ice hiding in craters so deep that sunlight has never reached the bottom. It sounds like a contradiction. It is one of the most beautiful facts in the solar system

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Before They Stop Looking Up: What Works and What Doesn't

Most of us make the same mistake sharing the night sky with kids: we lead with facts. Kids sense immediately that they're being taught, and the wonder drains out. Start with the sky, not the syllabus