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I write books about people, animals and my favourite subject of all, SPACE!

My latest book, 12 Ways To Get A Ticket To Space was inspired by recent stories in the news.

We live in an exciting time of space exploration. There are lots of new ways to go to space and YOU could one day visit space too. By the time you are an adult, humans will have returned to the Moon and even landed on Mars!

When I was a child, I read lots of fact books about the planets in our solar system and I was amazed to discover other stars had orbiting planets too. I also read story books that imagined strange new worlds. Two of my favourite books are, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in which the children find a magic portal to Narnia, and Dune where the family arrive by spaceship on a desert planet.

When I’m reading, I often feel like I am exploring!

What kinds of story books and real-life stories inspire you?

Happy reading,

Kate

1 Boy and Grandad are looking through their telescope.

written and illustrated by

But what’s that? It looks like a rocket has crashed, so we find our rocket building things . . .

Written by Kate Peridot, illustrated by Terri Po, published by Wide Eyed (Quarto) 2024

Hello readers and space fans! - My name is Kate Peridot, and I am a children’s author.

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and made ready the undercarriage.

Sam Usher

We measured and designed, stuck on pompoms and features,

Then we climbed aboard and started the countdown.

Contents Zoom! ...................................... p.1

Wordsearch ...................... p.13

Astronaut Hall of Fame ..... p.4

Earth Calling Aru.............. p.14

A Little Blue Dot ..................... p.6 13

by Charlie Baker and Hannah Timson

Special Report

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Astrophysics for Supervillains ................ p.18

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The International Space Station (ISS)

A PEAKE MISSION!

GLOBAL space icon Tim Peake is heading back to space!

The British astronaut told Sky’s FYI show that he hopes to return to the International Space Station with an allBritish crew as early as next year. We caught up with him to find out how plans for his big mission are going.

Tim before his space mission in 2015

Colouring Page ................. p.10

A Peake Mission ............... p.19

Hi Tim. So, can you tell us more about the mission?

Well, I’m working with Axiom Space and the UK Space Agency. They’ve signed a memorandum [document] of understanding and we are still hoping to launch it as an all-UK mission. I would love to be the commander of that mission. We haven’t announced any crew yet, and there’s a long way to go in terms of commercial sponsorship, but it’ll be a huge, fantastic opportunity for the UK, in particular for science, tech and engineering, but also for talking to schools. We reached two million schoolchildren during the 2015-16 Principia mission. We could double that this time, so it would be a great opportunity.

“We’re all sharing this planet.

We need to look after it together.”

When will you be able to announce the crew?

We’ve not set ourselves a date at the moment. There are lots of moving parts, and we’ve got the Farnborough International Air Show coming up (22-26 July), so there could be some form of announcement then.

You did over 250 experiments last time you were in space. What are you looking at doing this time?

Yes, we are constantly doing about that number of experiments every six months on the space station. What’s interesting is that some of the experiments have really developed since I’ve been on board. Things such as 3D printing in particular – we are bioprinting cell structures, human hearts, organs. These kinds of experiments are quite incredible! Life science is also really important. We’ve got an ageing population and we all want to lead fitter lives for longer – and that’s exactly what we can study in space. So some experiments around that would be good, as well as things like artificial intelligence and quantum (super-fast) computing.

“My favourite food in space was maple muffin pancakes!”

Shine, Star, Shine! ............. p.12 Tim wants to help young people discover all about the world and space

What are the biggest life lessons you’ve learnt from your time in space already?

Just to have the confidence to go for it. There’s so many times when it’s easy to try to talk yourself out of doing something, but sometimes you’ve just got to have the confidence to give it a go and not be afraid of failure.

What was the hardest thing that you had to experience or overcome when you were in space?

I mean, the lifestyle is very tough in the years of training beforehand, trying to get any sort of family balance is very hard. Learning so much information in a short space of time, you really have to work out how to prioritise that.

For me, languages were difficult. I’m much more of a person who understands science, engineering, maths and technology, so to learn the Russian language was a real struggle. I think the great thing though is you’ve got lots of people around you who are there to help you.

What was the best thing?

Looking at the view, without a doubt! I mean that’s also mixed with being weightless because that’s a completely unusual experience, so those two things combined just give you this completely different perspective of the planet. We’re all living on this one small rock going around the sun and we’re all sharing this planet. We need to look after it, and each other, together.

Tim helped to launch the Summer of Discovery at Isaac Newton’s childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor, which runs throughout July and August. For more info, visit tinyurl.com/4k4vxywh.

Blast off!

Enter our competition ... p.20

Content curated and adapted by Bookmark for The Story Corner magazine, with special thanks to all our contributors Front cover artwork © Sarah Harrison Illustration 2024

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And I said, “It’s OK. We can fix that”

5 . . . and finally reached the planet.

We plotted the intergalactic star charts,

The astronauts were very pleased to see us.

“Just look at our module!” they cried.

So we measured and drilled and stuck and glued.

It took ages.

The astronauts were thrilled. went must through asteroidthey clouds, “You be tired,” said. “Why don’t you come back to our space station for a nap?”

round a quasar . . .

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But it was so exciting I couldn’t sleep.

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And I said, “It’s OK. We can fix that.”

7 . . . and finally reached the planet.

We plotted the intergalactic star charts,

The astronauts were very pleased to see us.

“Just look at our module!” they cried.

So we measured and drilled and stuck and glued.

It took ages.

The astronauts were thrilled.

“You be tired,” said. “Why don’t you went must through asteroidthey clouds, come back to our space station for a nap?”

round a quasar . . .

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And neither could Grandad.

3 Zoom! by Sam Usher is out now, published by Templar in hardback (£12.99) and paperback (£7.99)

ASTRONAUT HALL OF FAME

Yuri Gagarin

Valentina Tereshkova

Neil Armstrong

First man in space. Completed one orbit of Earth in Vostok 1. 1961

First woman in space. Completed forty-eight orbits of Earth in Vostok 6. 1963

First person to set foot on the Moon.

Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. 1969

Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt

Mae Jemison

Longest stay on the Moon: 74 hours, 59 minutes on the Apollo 17 mission. 1972

First Black woman in space, on board Endeavour. 1992

Valeri Polyakov

James Voss & Susan Helms

Longest time living in space: 437 days on board the Mir space station. 1994-1995

Longest spacewalk: 8 hours, 56 minutes, to prepare the ISS for the installation of a storage unit. 2001

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GET READY FOR YOUR TICKET TO SPACE! It’s never too early to start practising the skills needed to travel and live in space. Why not start today?

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An extract from 12 Ways To Get a Ticket to Space written by Kate Peridot, illustrated by Terri Po © Wide Eyed Editions 2024

Jerry Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz

William Shatner

Most spaceflights. Each astronaut launched in NASA Space Shuttles seven times and helped to construct the ISS. 1982-2002 and 1986-2002, respectively.

Oldest person in space, at 90 years old. Launched on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. 2021

GET READY FOR YOUR TICKET TO SPACE! Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers

First mother and daughter and first Caribbean women in First person to pilot a homebuilt It’s never to early to start practising the skills needed to travel and live in space. Why not start today? space. Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two. 2023 rocket into space.

ICKET TO SPACE! Go on a roller coaster ride to experience g-forces

Practise living in an enclosed space

vel and live in space. Why not start today?

“Space travel made me feel I have a personal obligation to be a good steward of our planet and to educate others about what’s happening to it.”

FURTHER READING Try a VR simulator.

– Chris Hadfield, astronaut.

First woman on the Moon.

First kid in space.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to Firstyou person make sense of what see andon Mars. wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”

GET READY FOR YOUR TICKET TO SPACE

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– Chris Hadfield, astronaut.

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A Little Blue Dot

by Maren Hasenjäger Somewhere in our vast universe floats a little blue dot. This dot is Earth and she is surrounded by lots of impressive planets – Saturn with his ice-crystal rings and 82 moons, fiery Mars with his huge storms and volcanoes, bright and beautiful Venus...

“And then there’s me. Not very big, not particularly warm or cold, no giant storms or eternal summers or beautiful rings.

Actually, I’m pretty bor…”

“Now stop that!” interrupts Mars. “I think you’re talking nonsense. For instance, we are all jealous of those giant oceans you have. All the water from my surface evaporated, so now I’m bone-dry.”

“And here, at the edge of the solar system, it’s pretty lonely and cold. I’d much prefer to be as close to the Sun as you are,” sighs Neptune.

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DAY LENGTH: 1 58 day, 37 DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: 9243 hours 55 mins days, 1536 h, 36 DAY LENGTH: 58 days, 15mins h, m m DAY LENGTH: days 243 days

DAY LENGTH: hours 4756 mins DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: hours mins 231023 hours 56 mins

PLANETS TOP TRUMPS URANUS MARS MARS

NEPTUNE MERCURY JUPITER JUPITER

PLUTO (DWARF) SATURN SATURN VENUS

EARTH

DIAMETER: 51118km DISTANCE: 2.9 billion DISTANCE: 228 DISTANCE: 228 million million kmkm

DISTANCE: DISTANCE: 4.5 billion kmkm 58 million km DISTANCE: DISTANCE: 778 million 778 million km

DISTANCE: 5.9 billion km DISTANCE: DISTANCE: DISTANCE:1.4 1.4 billion kmkm billion km 108 million

DISTANCE:

150 million km

MOONS: 28 km DIAMETER: 51,118 km DIAMETER: 6,790 DIAMETER: 6,790 km

DIAMETER: DIAMETER: 49,528 kmkm 4,880 DIAMETER: DIAMETER: 142,984 142,984 km

DIAMETER: 2,377 km DIAMETER: DIAMETER: DIAMETER: 120,536 km 120,536 kmkm 12,100

DIAMETER:

12,735 km

MOONS: ROTATION MOONS: 2 28+ MOONS: 284 years

MOONS: MOONS: 95+ 16+ 0 MOONS: MOONS: 95+

MOONS: 5146+ MOONS: MOONS: MOONS: 146+ 0

MOONS:

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ORBIT:

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TIME:

ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT:

84 years 17hr,14min 687 days 687 days

DAY LENGTH:

ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT:

DAY LENGTH: 171 hours, 14 mins DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: day, mins 1 day, 37 37 mins

URANUS URANUS DIAMETER: 51118km DIAMETER: 51118km DISTANCE: 2.9 DISTANCE: 2.9 billion billion kmkm MOONS: 28kmkm DIAMETER: 51,118 MOONS: 28 DIAMETER: 51,118 MOONS: 28+ MOONS: ROTATION 84 years 28+ ROTATION 84 years TIME: TIME: ORBIT: ORBIT: 84 years 8417hr,14min years 17hr,14min DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH:

years days 11 88 years, days 11165 years, 315315 days

ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT:

years 29 years, days 29248 years, 166166 days 225 days

DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: hours DAY LENGTH: 58 days, 15mins h, 36 mDAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: 10 mins DAY LENGTH: 10153 hours 47 47 mins 243 days DAY LENGTH: 9hours, hours 55 915 hours 5558 mins

Download the full set to print and play at home: www.mamamakes books.com/activities -little-blue-dot

DAY LENGTH: 23 hours 56 mins

SATURN

MARS NEPTUNE NEPTUNE

PLUTO (DWARF) PLUTO (DWARF) JUPITER

DISTANCE: DISTANCE: 228 million DISTANCE: billion 4.54.5 billion kmkmkm

DISTANCE: DISTANCE: DISTANCE:5.95.9 billion billion kmkmkm 778 million

DISTANCE:

1.4 billion km

DIAMETER: DIAMETER: 6,790 km DIAMETER: 49,528 49,528 kmkm

DIAMETER: DIAMETER: DIAMETER: 2,377 2,377 kmkm km 142,984

DIAMETER:

120,536 km

“Do you have any idea how exhausting it is when you’ve MOONS: MOONS: MOONS: 2 146+ MOONS: MOONS: MOONS: 16+16+ 5 5 95+ got 146 moons that won’t stop chatting to MOONS: each other?

ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT:

687 days years 165165 years

ORBIT: ORBIT: ORBIT:

248 years 315 days 248 years 11 years,

ORBIT:

29 years, 166 days

It must be so nice and quiet when you’ve only got one DAY LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: 10 hours 47 mins DAY LENGTH: LENGTH: LENGTH: 1hours, day,58 3758 mins DAY LENGTH: LENGTH: LENGTH: DAY LENGTH: 17 hours, mins DAYDAY mins DAYDAY hours55 mins 17 hours, 14 14 mins 15 15 hours, mins 153153 hours 9 hours moon, like you,” interjects Saturn.

URANUS

NEPTUNE

Then Earth hears another little voice...

PLUTO (DWARF)

DIAMETER: DISTANCE:

2.951118km billion km

DISTANCE:

4.5 billion km

DISTANCE:

5.9 billion km

MOONS: DIAMETER:

28 km 51,118

DIAMETER:

49,528 km

DIAMETER:

2,377 km

MOONS: ROTATION TIME:

84 years 28+

MOONS:

16+

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5

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ORBIT:

165 years

ORBIT:

248 years

ORBIT:

DAY LENGTH:

DAY LENGTH: 17 hours, 14 mins

DAY LENGTH: 15 hours, 58 mins

DAY LENGTH: 153 hours

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Earth looks around in surprise.

“Look closely, I’m here, really near,” calls the voice.

MNEMONIC

A mnemonic is an easy way to remember the order of the planets, starting with the closest to the sun and ending with the farthest away.

Mercury • Venus • Earth • Mars • Jupiter • Saturn • Uranus • Neptune

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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles Many Very Elderly Men Just Snooze Under Newspapers My Vicious Earthworm Might Just Swallow Us Now Taken from A Little Blue Dot by Maren Hasenjäger and reproduced with kind permission from Mama Makes Books. © 2021 Magellan GmbH & Co. KG, Bamberg, Germany English text © Mama Makes Books Ltd.

Then Earth sees a child standing in the middle of her waving.

“Finally, you’re listening to me,” the child says. “I think you’ve forgotten something very important: you are the only planet I can live on. Here, it’s not too hot and not too cold. There is water and food and air to breathe. Only you have grass and crocodiles. And bees and sunflowers. And snow leopards and lakes to swim in and daisies and octopuses and snowball fights and cacti and blue whales and spaghetti and giant redwood trees and children and pizza and bouncy-balls and ants and coral reefs and summer holidays and ice cream with whipped cream on the top and much, much more!”

The child pauses and then smiles:

“You are exactly right for me!”

At that, Earth blushes and smiles…

You are great!

Earth’s moon

You have discovered a NEW planet on your space exploration!

Draw what it looks like

What is your planet’s name?

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Colour in the planets Why not add what you might find in space!

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Activity from A Little Blue Dot by Maren Hasenjäger, reproduced with kind permission from Mama Makes Books © 2021 | www.mamamakesbooks.com

Name .......................................................................................................................

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An extract from:

Shine, Star, Shine!

Open your eyes!

Someone shook a fizzy universe and a festival of colour sprayed out.

It’s a nebula — gas and dust squeezed ‘til it sparks and this is how our Star is born.

Some stars are big, some stars are small some blaze blue with great heat, but all of them forge the stuff in their hearts to make trillions of planets and moons.

Our star’s called the Sun and without her there’d be no life on this planet called Earth.

Let’s open the curtains and let the light in and

shine, Star, shine!

Star rises in the East to bring out the day turning the dark sky to gold.

Look, here comes a stag, the crowned king of morning, here comes a jackdaw, clattering a warning and here comes a fox who’s red as day’s dawning.

We live and we play, we work and we sleep and Star’s at the heart of it all.

In one turn of the Earth there is night and there’s day as it orbits the star we call ‘sun’.

That orbit’s a loop around Star’s blazing sphere bringing spring, summer, autumn and winter.

When an eagle owl sleeps, it’s time for others to wake so

shine, Star, shine!

12 Shine, Star, Shine! text © Dom Conlon, illustrations © Anastasia Izlesou, published bysmall Graffeg.

SPACEFrom PUZZLES from BRAIN BOOSTERS series

by Vicky Barker and Ste Johnson, published by b © 2021

Space Word Search!

SPACE PUZZLES from BRAIN BOOSTERS series by Vicky Barker and Ste Johnson published by b small © 2021 | bsmall.co.uk

This word search is out of this world

Create your own space-themed word search using ideas from the magazine!

Are there any new words here that you didn’t know?

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Read from left to right

Earth Calling Aru Written by Labanya Ghosh Illustrated by Gitanjali Iyer Published by Pratham Books

“Pffff! That’s so unfair,” mutters Earth.

“Gravity is an amazing force.

Air, plants, animals, mountains, oceans, stars, houses, cars and schools, Aru and even me – none of us would be where we are if it weren’t for gravity!”

“But how do I get Aru to see this?”

“Whaaaa...”

"Please, please, stop! I called gravity silly because I want to fly. But now everything is flying," says Aru.

“Nooooooo!”

"Hmmmpppph!

You think all gravity does is stop you from flying?"

“Eeeeeeeeeee!” a!”

“Aaaaaaaaa

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“Whoaahhhhh!”

"Huh? What else does it do apart from keeping me on the ground?"

Aru asks.

Aru is at it again. She is, for the twentieth time, preparing to fly like the superheroes in her comic.

And for the twentieth time, she screams, “Aaarrrrrrgh!”

“Gravity, I hate you!”

Earth hatches a plan.

“Hello, Aru. This is Earth.

Since you hate gravity so much, I have decided to take it away.

Please fly around as much as you want to.”

“Of course, you will have to catch your cape first!”

Earth sighs and explains, “Gravity is an invisible force that makes everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, around us pull or attract each other.

It keeps all things in order.”

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Read from left to right “Without it, all things, even you and I, would just float away and disappear into space. Poof!”

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If you could fly...

Where would you go? ..................................... .....................................

“Hmmm…and the moon? It’s pretty big too.”

Aru asks.

“Ah, now you’re really beginning to catch on, Aru. The moon is much lighter than me, so it doesn’t pull you as hard as I do. But it is close enough to pull the water in our oceans and create tides.”

What would you do? ................................... ................................

“And you will. You could learn to pilot a plane when you grow up, or take off to the moon in a rocket.”

Aru is thrilled to hear this. “Yes, one day, I WILL fly!

Now can you please turn gravity back on again?”

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Aru is quick to ask, “But where is all this pulling?

I don’t see it at all.”

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“Well observed, Aru! Everything is indeed pulling on each other all the time. You just don’t see or feel it because I am the heaviest object around you. And my pull is the strongest. So I pull everything to myself and keep us all grounded.”

Can you imagine being able to fly?

“And my pull is the strongest around you because I have the most mass.

Remember, greater the mass, stronger the pull,” says Earth.

Mass is the amount of matter or stuff in an object.

💭

What would happen if there was no gravity?

Draw your ideas

Aru is quiet for a while.

Suddenly, she flaps her arms and says, “But I do want to fly! Fly,

fly,

fly

away!”

“What did you break now, Aru?”

“It wasn’t me, Ma. It was gravity!”

Earth Calling Aru (English), written by Labanya Ghosh, illustrated by Gitanjali Iyer, supported by CISCO, published by Pratham Books (© Pratham Books,2019) under a CC BY 4.0 license, first released on StoryWeaver. Read, create and translate stories for free on www.storyweaver.org.in

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Q&A with Dr Matt Bothwell Author of Astrophysics for Supervillains

What is the weather like on Mercury?

Terrible! Either scorching hot (on the day side) or colder than a deep freeze (on the nighttime side).

How long could you survive on Venus?

Zero seconds. You’d be squished, roasted, and melted before you even got near the ground.

Zero stars. Would not recommend.

Did you know, Earth didn’t have a moon to start with?

Around 5 billion years ago, a dwarf planet (that doesn’t exist anymore) called Theia smashed into Earth, breaking it into two lumps. The big lump is what we call the Earth, and the little chunk that got broken off is our Moon!

Why do scientists want to land on Mars so badly?

Because it would be really cool! Also it’s a useful stopping-off point for exploring the rest of the Solar System.

Just how big is Jupiter?

Huge! Jupiter is so massive it could swallow 1300 Earths, and still have room left over for more than 3000 Plutos. It’s huuuuuge!

How did Saturn get its rings?

Millions of years ago, one of Saturn’s many moons was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got torn to pieces by Saturn’s gravity. The poor moon was smashed into little bits – all these bits carried on orbiting around Saturn, and eventually spread out into a ring.

How fast is the wind on Uranus?

Up to 860 kilometers per hour! This is much, much faster than the most powerful hurricane ever recorded on Earth. Winds this fast would knock down buildings! Glad I don’t live on Uranus…

What makes Neptune so blue?

There is a gas called methane in Neptune’s atmosphere — and methane reflects blue light. Simple as that!

Why isn’t Pluto a planet anymore?

It turns out that Pluto is just one of the big rocks orbiting around the outskirts of our Solar System… and there are THOUSANDS of them out there. If we call Pluto a planet, we’d have to call them all planets. No one wanted to remember thousands of planets, so astronomers changed the rules and kicked Pluto out of the Planet club.

What is inside a black hole?

There is no inside a black hole! At the very centre of a black hole is a tiny speck called ‘The Singularity’, which is a dead star smushed into a dot smaller than an atom. Anything that falls into the black hole gets stretched out long and thin (this is called being SPAGHETTIFIED) before getting crushed into nothingness. Best avoided, I think.

18 Astrophysics for Supervillains, written by Dr Matt Bothwell, illustrated by Nathan Reed. DK. £7.99. Out Now.

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