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This week, we’ll be making galaxies in a jar! Create a jar filled with glitter to stare into the vast, unknowable cosmos and ponder the reality of your existence from the comfort of your own home. This activity is open to everyone in middle and high school. Hang out with your friends, grab some infinitely expanding treats, and create a a universe that can quite literally revolve around you. Held at Hailey Public Library.
1) Tomorrowland
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
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Language
English
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Description
"This illustrated narrative explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space"--
No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature--alongside his trademark wit and charm--Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
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Series
Publisher
Starry Forest Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Explore the possibilities of space exploration: discoveries that expand the boundaries of our universe. Feed your curiosity with photos, facts, and figures. Spark your creativity with hands-on activities"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Prufrock Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Packed with hundreds of illustrated definitions about astronomy and space, Space Dictionary for Kids is certain to spark any kid's enthusiasm for the solar system and galaxy. Explore cosmology, stars and galaxies, the solar system, space exploration, and exoplanets and astrobiology. Hop on an astronomy timeline to learn the story of how primitive ancient beliefs evolved over centuries to become a high-technology science. Crack up over the humorous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
9) Salvation
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals. Michael Burnham grapples with her past growing up on Vulcan with her foster parents and brother Spock.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system. Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center of the Universe, but all of that changed in the 17th century. Astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton proposed...
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts....
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Language
English
Description
"Jedi Master Mace Windu leads a battle against Separatist forces for control of the planet Simocadia! While the Confederacy of Independent Systems battles for the planet's rare fuel source, and the Republic tries to repel the invaders, the rulers of Simocadia choose a different option to save the planet: awakening the Ardana Shadex, an indestructible, mechanized giant that has been sleeping for centuries under the planet's surface! But awakening the...
18) Chaos rising
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Discover Thrawn's origins within the Chiss Ascendancy in the first book in an epic new Star Wars trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The survivors of a human race under attack by hostile aliens who would claim the planet for an apocalyptic deity orchestrate a defensive strategy millennia in the making.
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Vol. Two continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favorite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes' aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand.
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