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Updated on May 18, 2012

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"This well-designed odyssey truly does put the universe at viewers’ fingertips." - Kirkus Reviews

"The size of the universe can feel like a strange concept but Tick Bait’s universe makes it wonderfully accessible. When [kids] are able zoom in and …[and out]… they’ll be hooked. I was." - The iPhone Mom

With this app, kids (and kids at heart) can easily zoom in and out to explore the universe. They can zoom up to see Earth’s atmosphere, our solar system, galaxies and beyond. They can also zoom down into the microscopic world to explore bacteria, viruses, DNA, atoms, protons and beyond.

The beautiful and kid friendly illustrations make these scientific concepts more accessible and less intimidating.

For ages 7 to 70!

Educationally, Tick Bait’s Universe helps kids grasp complex scientific concepts. A proton is unimaginably small. A galaxy is unimaginably large. Children have a hard time relating to objects and scientific concepts that are so different from their everyday world. Tick Bait’s Universe helps kids understand the scale of objects in the universe and their own place in it. It also provides an environment to introduce many scientific concepts and facts that otherwise would remain abstract and hard for them to understand.

The result is an app that encourages a child’s natural curiosity about science without overwhelming him or her.

Here are just a few of the questions that Tick Bait’s Universe answers:
-How large is the solar system? (Hint: much, much larger than the orbits of Neptune and Pluto.)
-Are black holes is in the middle of spiral galaxies?
-What is bigger than a spiral galaxy?
-Did the space shuttle fly above or in Earth’s atmosphere?
-Why do thunderheads have flat tops?
-How tall is the tallest building on earth?
-What microscopic things live on us?
-What is bigger: viruses or bacteria?
-How can DNA be a code?
-How much smaller is the nucleus than the atom?
-What is inside an atom?
-What is inside a proton?
-And more…