{"product_id":"the-planets-are-very-very-mike-vago-9781615197774","title":"The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything--and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but \u003cem\u003etwice\u003c\/em\u003e, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A \u003cem\u003ehundred\u003c\/em\u003e-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Vago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161519777X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781615197774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.06h x 10.08w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/09\/2022","brand":"Mike Vago","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987537232127,"sku":"9781615197774","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2439e523-fbc3-466c-8bcb-3d6fbfdea87f.jpg?v=1683289578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-planets-are-very-very-mike-vago-9781615197774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}