{"product_id":"9781615197774-the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away","title":"The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System\u003cbr\u003eThe solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!\u003cbr\u003eQuick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!It’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 twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.At 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 hundred-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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451535995254,"sku":"9781615197774","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33614884.jpg?v=1760462895","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781615197774-the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}