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Written by renowned space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, this fun, fact-filled activity book is packed with over 30 puzzles themed around space exploration.
Out-of-this-world activities include a mind-boggling Asteroid Belt search-and-find, a brain-busting Great Red Spot spot-the-difference, and a Moon-themed shadow match game. Along the way, readers can learn all kinds of incredible things about the universe, from how black holes form to whether diamond rain falls on Jupiter.
Also available in the series:
9781916763265 Dr Maggie's Astronaut Adventure Activity Book
About the author
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand, participate in and enjoy science.
She studied at Imperial College London, where she obtained her degree in Physics and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She has spent her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation in both the industrial and academic environments including working on the James Webb Space Telescope and various satellite monitoring climate change.
To further share her passion for science, in 2004 Maggie founded Science Innovation Ltd. Through this company she conducts public engagement activities, sharing her love of space and encouraging underrepresented communities to take up STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. To date Maggie has directly spoken to well over 600,000 people around the world. As well as public speaking she is a Bafta-nominated TV presenter, co-hosting the world’s longest-running science television program The Sky at Night.
She is also an author, and her recent children’s book Am I Made of Stardust? won the Royal Society book prize. Maggie also won the Institute of Physics gold medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication; she was the President of the British Science Association and is the current Chancellor of the University of Leicester. She was made a Dame in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list.
Chelen is an illustrator and a lettering artist based in Madrid, Spain. Painting and lettering are her passions and playing with letterpress type is her hobby. She is also addicted to travelling, eating sunflower seeds and buying new books. She has worked for numerous publishers including Penguin Random House, Scholastic and Hachette.
