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Strange New Worlds : the Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System (New in Paperback).
In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars--thousa...
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| 520 | |a In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars--thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration. He describes the latest findings--incl. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1 Quest for Other Worlds: The Exciting Times We Live In; Chapter 2 Planets from Dust: Unraveling the Birth of Solar Systems; Chapter 3 A Wobbly Start: False Starts and Death Star Planets; Chapter 4 Planet Bounty: Hot Jupiters and Other Surprises; Chapter 5 Flickers and Shadows: More Ways to Find Planets; Chapter 6 Blurring Boundaries: Neither Stars nor Planets; Chapter 7 A Picture's Worth: Images of Distant Worlds; Chapter 8 Alien Earths: In Search of Wet, Rocky Habitats; Chapter 9 Signs of Life: How Will We Find E.T.?; Glossary. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Selected BibliographyAfterword to the Paperback Edition; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Author. | |
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