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A journey to the planets, moons, and other celestial bodies in our solar system!

Captain James Cook, a British explorer; Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels; Brian May, guitarist of the world-famous rock band Queen; Will Hay, a popular British comedian; and William Herschel, a German-born British musician.
The word that can unite these people who seem to have nothing in common is the solar system.
Although they excelled in their fields, they were also interested in the heavens.

James Cook sailed to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, and Jonathan Swift's 1726 book Gulliver's Travels accurately mentions the existence of Phobos and Deimos, two moons of Mars that were not confirmed until 150 years later, and even their orbital periods.
Brian May received his PhD in 2007, more than 30 years after starting his PhD, for his thesis on the rotational motion of 'zodiacal dust', and Will Hay discovered the Great White Spot, a storm on Saturn, in 1933.
William Herschel, a famous organist, was interested in the sky and discovered Uranus for the first time. He named the planet after George, the king of England, his second home country.

This book, which contains mysterious and surprising stories about little-known solar system bodies, takes us on a fantastic journey through time and space, starting from the explosive birth of the solar system and covering all the research results on the eight planets of the solar system, as well as asteroids and comets.