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One final fascinating fact for you from a book that is overflowing with them: overripe bananas glow indigo under ultraviolet light so maybe you should get one to check the state of your bananas? Her favourite 'work' interests are teaching GCSE Astronomy and giving public talks to audiences of all ages and sizes, while representing her place of work, the Royal Astronomical Society, which she adores. Keep reading to discover why leaves change colour in the autumn, why your veins look blue but your blood is red, and why the language we use shapes the colours we see…. She also dives further into space exploration with her book How to be an Astronaut and Other Space Jobs , with her latest release Can You Get Jellyfish in Space? Dancing through the colours of the rainbow (and beyond, through black, white, fluorescence, infrared and ultraviolet), each section explains how we see that particular colour and explores nature linked to it, including how some animals can see in the dark.Not only is the scientific information broken down into manageable chunks, but various facts about the different colours are clearly laid out in text boxes or similar. This review was written by Heather Hann Heather is currently the Head of School Improvement for a large MAT in Suffolk. An experienced educator, her explanations are clear and inspiring, setting readers up for what is to come.

The level of author Dr Kanani's knowledge is quite amazing and hugely varied; what the reader learns ranges from finding out that red was one of the first colours used in pre-historic art to learning why it is also the colour of a baboon's bottom!And you’ll even be taught by a real astronomer, Dr Sheila Kanani, exactly how to make a rainbow – in space.