Out There
About
What's out there beyond our sky? One world, one star, one piece of the cosmos at a time, brought close enough to picture in your head.
Episodes
1. The Sun: Our Closest Star
Eight minutes ago, the sunlight on your face was inside a star. Get close enough to see it bubbling like golden soup, with no oxygen and no flame — just something stranger and stronger than fire.
2. The Moon: Our Closest Neighbor
What would it feel like to walk on a world where your footprints would last a million years? Our quiet, dusty companion has been circling Earth since long before there were eyes to see it.
3. Mars: A Closer Look
A rust-red planet, a sky the color of butterscotch, and a rock Curiosity cracked open to reveal yellow crystals no one had ever seen on another world. What is it really like, up close, on Mars?
4. Jupiter: King of the Planets
Far past Mars spins a giant made of gas, with a storm bigger than Earth and dozens of moons of its own. Meet Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and see how a gas giant compares to the rocky worlds we know.
5. Comets: Visitors from Far Away
A comet streaks across the night sky and the reader follows it home. Where do comets come from, why do their tails glow, and why do they only show up once in a great while?
6. Galaxies: The Big Picture
A galaxy is a giant wheel of stars, and our Milky Way is just one of them. From spirals to ovals to messy little ones, from our neighbor Andromeda to two trillion others, this book zooms all the way out and shows the reader how big the universe really is.