{"product_id":"the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away","title":"The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003etwice\u003c\/i\u003e, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ehundred\u003c\/i\u003e-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 . . .","brand":"Workman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"9781615197774","offer_id":32796810477648,"sku":"9781615197774","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1210\/1100\/products\/9781615197781-optimized_39e21020-593d-41e1-bc63-232231ef4431.jpg?v=1678075681","url":"https:\/\/workman-feed-prod.myshopify.com\/products\/the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away","provider":"zzz_Workman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}