Searching Beyond the Stars: Seven Scientists Take On Space's Biggest Questions

Awards:   Joint winner of Best Books List 2023 (Canada) Short-listed for Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award 2023 (United States)
Author:   Nicole Mortillaro ,  Amanda Key
Publisher:   Annick Press Ltd
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9781773216256


Pages:   124
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Recommended Age:   From 10 years
Format:   Hardback
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  • Joint winner of Best Books List 2023 (Canada)
  • Short-listed for Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award 2023 (United States)

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Author:   Nicole Mortillaro ,  Amanda Key
Publisher:   Annick Press Ltd
Imprint:   Annick Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9781773216256


ISBN 10:   1773216252
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Recommended Age:   From 10 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children's (6-12)
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

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About the Creators NICOLE MORTILLARO is an author, a science reporter with CBC News, the editor of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and an amateur astronomer. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. AMANDA KEY is an illustrator and graphic designer from Vancouver Island. Her work includes marketing, logo creation, and brand design for small businesses in addition to illustration in children's literature. Scientists Profiled Katherine Johnson, research mathematician and aerospace technologist at NASA. Helped get the first American astronauts into space and safely home again. Lived in Newport News, Virgina. Jill Tarter, radio astronomer and project scientist at NASA. Opened up possibilities for communicating with aliens. Lives inBerkeley, California. Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist. Credited with laying the foundation for the field of exoplanet atmospheres and the search for life on exoplanets. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, Sara now lives in Massachusetts. Emily Lakdawalla, planetary scientist, journalist, speaker, and expert science communicator formerly of The Planetary Society. Lives in Los Angeles, California. Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist and geologist. Was on the science operations team for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter analyzing imaging from a geologist's standpoint to see whether we might one day live on Mars. Director of Science Strategy at Planet Labs. Lives in Washington, D.C. Rene Hloek, astrophysicist and cosmologist. Her work is to imagine, dream, and calculate the mathematical equations that govern and predict the end of the universe. Originally from South Africa, Rene now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Ashley Walker, astrochemist, science communicator, and activist. Co-organizer of #BlackinChem, #BlackInAstro, and #BlackInPhysics to highlight and amplify the voices of Black researchers and scholars in these fields. Lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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