“Earth is enormous, but it's not so big compared to... the orbit of the Moon.“
“Earth is enormous, but it's not so big compared to... the orbit of the Moon.“
Jason Chin also writes The Universe in You, a book zooming in instead of out, like this one. It goes into cells and atoms, etc.
Great explanation of the scale of the universe. Starts with the height of an 8-year-old, then an ostrich... the tallest tree, the highest peak on earth, the entire planet, the orbit of the moon, etc. etc. The illustrations perfectly depict what the text explains,