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Galaxies

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Susan Rose Simms

  • Galaxies
  • Galaxies
    Found out about stars, black holes, dark matter and other things that make up galaxies! High interest non-fiction for struggling readers


Grade Readability: 3
Interest Age: 10 to 18
Lexile: 670
2019
ISBN: 9781634022750

How big is the Milky Way Galaxy? Where is our Earth located among its billions of stars? People have been studying galaxies for hundreds of years. We have learned a lot–but there is still much to discover. Find out more about stars, black holes, dark matter, and other things that make up galaxies!

Super Science Facts entertains readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colourful images on every page that support reading comprehension. The minimal text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.

Glossary: astronomer, black hole, bulge, cluster, dark matter, elliptical galaxy, filament, galaxy, gravity, halo, irregular galaxy, light-year, pressure, spiral galaxy, supercluster, supermassive, supernova, void.

Table of Contents

Our Home Galaxy

Discovering Galaxies

Types of Galaxies

Birth of a Galaxy

Black Holes

The Space Between