The Planets Are Very, Very, Very, Far Away : A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System - Mike Vago

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very, Far Away

A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

By: Mike Vago

Paperback | 14 December 2021 | Edition Number 1

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You've never seen the solar system like this before.

Quick: Picture the solar system If you see nine planets closely ringing the sun on tidy, nested circular tracks, we have bad news for you: You have been lied to--likely by every diagram you've ever seen. And not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it onto a placement, say, or a lunchbox, or even into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything . . . and that's why this is no ordinary book.

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away sets the record straight with pages that unfold not once, but twice--to fully five feet wide together --to capture our nearest planetary neighbors at scale. We start at a trillion-to-one scale, which makes the Sun about the size of a dime. And five feet away from our dime-sized Sun, we find . . . Earth, about the size of a pinhead (enlarged for visibility)

A trillion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or even onto a soccer field) How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .

About the Author

Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf. He’s a graphic designer and a regular contributor to The A.V. Club. He tells people he lives in New York, but he actually lives in New Jersey.

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