Super stars : the biggest, hottest, brightest, most explosive stars in the Milky Way
Title:
Super stars : the biggest, hottest, brightest, most explosive stars in the Milky Way
Author:
Aguilar, David A.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Kids/National Geographic, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
Describes fifteen of the most unusual known stars, plus other interesting stellar objects.
General Note:
"(plus black holes, brown dwarfs, constellations, and more!)"--Cover.
Includes index and websites.
Language:
English
Contents:
Life cycle of stars -- Globular clusters -- Diffuse nebulae -- Open star clusters -- Brown dwarfs -- Multiple stars -- Eclipsing stars -- Neutron stars -- Pulsars -- G stars -- Other stars with planets -- Life-giving stars -- Planetary nebulae -- Butterflies of the universe -- Supernovae -- Hypergiants -- Black holes -- Star quest.
Reading Level:
008-up Ingram.
NC 1160 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.9 1.0 136018.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 10. 4 Quiz: 49631.
ISBN:
9781426306013
9781426306020
Format :
Book
