by Jon Scieszka
• 2 outer “ice giants” (Uranus and Neptune) are made up of mostly ice forms of water, ammonia, and methane.
• The Solar System is part of the larger Milky Way Galaxy.
The milky way galaxy
• The Milky Way Galaxy is not the biggest, or the smallest galaxy. But it is an impressive 120,000 light-years across. And it contains over 200 billion stars.
• Our Solar System is located about 27,000 light-years from the center of the Galaxy, on the inner edge of one of the 4 spiral arms.
• It’s called the Milky Way because the collection of stars we see from Earth looks like a milky smear in the night sky.
• Like most large galaxies, the Milky Way has a super-massive black hole (SMBH) at its center. This SMBH is 4.6 million times the mass of our Sun!
• The Milky Way Galaxy is part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
THE LANIAKEA SUPERCLUSTER
• In 2014, a group of astronomers at the University of Hawaii figured out a way to map galaxies by looking at their motion.
• This makes our Milky Way Galaxy part of this supercluster of over 100,000 galaxies.
• Our Laniakea Supercluster stretches out over 520 million light years.
• The galaxies of Supercluster are pulled toward the dense center called the Great Attractor.
• “Laniakea” means “Immeasurable Heaven” in Hawaiian. This name was chosen to honor Polynesian navigators who used their knowledge of the heavens to navigate the Pacific Ocean.
• The Laniakea Supercluster is part of the larger Observable Universe.
The Observable Universe
• The Universe is all of space-time and all of its contents.
Superclusters, galaxies, solar systems, planets, towns, homes, people. Everything.
• The Observable Universe is estimated to be 90.68 billion light-years across.
• Gravity is the biggest force in the large scale of the Universe.
• The Universe is a web of Superclusters. Some parts of the Universe are densely packed. Others are almost empty.
• The Universe is expanding, at an ever-increasing rate.
We don’t really know why.
the multiverse
• There is a theory that our Universe is just one of a set of disconnected universes.
• Each other universe could have different physical laws, and even different numbers of dimensions from ours.
• You can think of the Multiverse as a bunch of space-times, not interconnected, but still existing. Like a group of soap bubbles. Observers in any one soap bubble would be unable to interact with observers in any of the other soap bubbles.
• The size, and idea, of the Multiverse is just mind-blowing.
JON SCIESZKA lives in many universes. In writing this book, he lived in an alternate Universe not connected with the Universe and space-time which contains this book. You will have to ask him how he managed that.
BRIAN BIGGS has illustrated an infinite number of books over an infinite number of years, including the Tinyville Town series. He works in a studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that is basically a black hole of art supplies and obsolete computer parts, and he regularly goes back in time to his sixth-grade-self to remind him to eat his vegetables and get a little exercise. Brian would like to thank Jon Scieszka and the Abrams team for the opportunity to draw robots for the last four years.
to the inquisitive and fearless Mr. Chimp and Albert Einstein in all of us.
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NAMES: SCIESZKA, JON, AUTHOR. | BIGGS, BRIAN, ILLUSTRATOR.
TITLE: FRANK EINSTEIN AND THE SPACE-TIME ZIPPER / BY JON SCIESZKA;
ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN BIGGS.
DESCRIPTION: NEW YORK : AMULET BOOKS, 2018. | SERIES: FRANK EINSTEIN ; BOOK 6 | SUMMARY: “FRANK EINSTEIN (KID-GENIUS, SCIENTIST, AND INVENTOR) AND HIS BEST FRIEND, WATSON, ALONG WITH KLINK (A SELF-ASSEMBLED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE ENTITY) AND KLANK (A MOSTLY SELF-ASSEMBLED AND ARTIFICIAL ALMOST INTELLIGENCE ENTITY), ONCE AGAIN FIND THEMSELVES IN COMPETITION WITH T. EDISON, THEIR CLASSMATE AND ARCHRIVAL, THIS TIME STUDYING THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE!”
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IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2017052440 | ISBN 978-1-4197-2547-0 (HARDCOVER) | eISBN 978-1-68335-256-3
SUBJECTS: | CYAC: INVENTORS—FICTION. | ROBOTS—FICTION. | SPACE AND TIME—FICTION. | HUMOROUS STORIES. | SCIENCE FICTION. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. | JUVENILE FICTION / ROBOTS. | JUVENILE FICTION / HUMOROUS STORIES.
CLASSIFICATION: LCC PZ7.S41267 FV 2018 | DDC [FIC]—DC23
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