Adventures Beyond the Solar System: Planetron and Me

By Geoffrey T Williams

The faster-than-light sequel to the best-selling Adventures in the Solar System. This time, Planetron, the remarkable transformer robot, and young Will, travel thousands of light years through the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Exploding stars, black holes, neutron stars, even a planet that might be a future home for humans - all are explored and explained in fun, clear, scientific terms.
Complete with all the beautiful, full-color illustrations from the original book, as well as links to more information for in-depth study.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoffrey T Williams
• Release date: Feb 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9780977138159

Geoffrey T Williams

My love of science started when my geologist father told me a rock I had found in the back yard of our Wyoming house was a dinosaur bone. Fast-forward some years, and I wrote a short book called "Dinosaur World" and produced the cassette tape that went along with it. Thanks to a small publishing company named Price Stern Sloan, the book and tape went "viral," selling tens of thousands of copies in just a few months. That success led to the other Dinosaur World volumes, which eventually sold more than eight million copies. From that I branched out to write about other sciences I loved, including astronomy and space travel, entomology, oceanography, etc. And since I love producing audio, almost all the books included cassette tapes, and later, CDs.

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Adventures Beyond the Solar System – Planetron and Me

Geoffrey T. Williams

Illustrated by Pierr Morgan

Copyright 2012 by Geoffrey T. Williams

Smashwords Edition

Table of Contents

A Note From Planetron

Chapter 1 – How Big is Big?

Chapter 2 – Star Mission

Chapter 3 – Mr. Inc

Chapter 4 – Alpha Centauri

Chapter 5 – Beta Lyrae

Chapter 6 – The Life of a Star

Chapter 7 – M42 – The Orion Nebula

Chapter 8 - The Horsehead Nebula

Chapter 9 – M57 – The Ring Nebula

Chapter 10 – The Search Begins

Chapter 11 – M13 in Hercules

Chapter 12 – M1 – The Crab Nebula

Chapter 13 – Cygnus X-1

Chapter 14 – Terra Nova

Chapter 15 – Signs of Intelligence

Chapter 16 – We Are Stardust

Links

About the Author

A Note from planetron

I hope some of you went on our first adventure when Will and I traveled around the solar system. If you missed the blast off, when we get back from this trip, you might want to get on board for that ride. We had a lot of fun and learned a great deal about the planets, the sun, and comets.

And it wasn’t nearly as dangerous as this trip turned out to be!

The science of astronomy is advancing almost at light speed these days (if you’re not sure how fast that is, check out Chapter One – How Big is Big). Anyway, it seems like every day there’s a new extrasolar planet being discovered somewhere in our galaxy – there are even some that might be suitable for you to live on. If you want to know what might make another planet suitable for humans, read about Will’s and Mr. Inc’s search for Terra Nova.

The worlds of astrophysics, astronomy, exobiology, and the many other sciences that explore the universe are more exciting than ever before. I hope you enjoy the little bit of it we can bring you here.

HOW BIG IS BIG?

Someday, maybe thousands of years from now, some space traveler is going to find a brown paper bag with a sandwich and a cookie inside in orbit around a star named X-1, in the constellation Cygnus. I

Reviews for Adventures Beyond the Solar System

[alexandra1600 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Children and teachers will love to read this adventure in space or use book as a sounding board for a creative writing assignment.