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Saturn
Neptune
ABOUT MATH!

Uranus

This book will take you on a Space Numbers Mars Jupiter
journey through the world of Our Solar System is made up
numbers—from zero to infinity of eight major planets that

—demonstrating how we orbit one Sun. We live on

use numbers and how math Earth, which only has one
shapes our world. To make Moon. But beyond this, Earth Jupiter has four large
sense of really big numbers, space soon makes us think moons—Io, Europa,
Ganymede, and Callisto
you need to relate them to of really big numbers. —which were discovered

your everyday life. by Galileo in 1610.

Venus
Talking Distant Galaxies

Billions
Mercury Images taken with a special
Scientists believe that the camera on the Hubble
Solar System has existed Space Telescope show that

for about 4.5 billion years, a distant galaxy could be as far
and there are more stars as 12.7 billion light-years away.

in the Universe than If you think that a single light-year
grains of sand on all the is 6 trillion miles (6,000,000,000,000),

beaches on Earth. That’s Sun then you’ll see we’re talking about
more than a billion trillion! an astronomical distance!

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