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Universal life : an inside look behind the race to discover life beyond earth /

After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Cape Canaveral. Kepler began a years-long mission of looking for Earth-like planets amongst the millions of stars in the northern constellations of Ly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boss, Alan, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Don't take no for an answer
  • Waiting for Kepler to deliver the goods
  • Astro 2010 comes to bat
  • Barcelona is in Catalonia, not in Spain
  • Witness protection program
  • The president proposes, congress disposes
  • Open for business, under new management
  • Bring out your dead
  • Ominous signs from Maryland
  • Ground-based telescopes score a hat trick
  • And that's not all
  • Proxima centauri b arrives on stage
  • Speaking of the decadal survey
  • November 9, 2016, a day that shall
  • And the winners are
  • Say, could you help me out
  • The pre-decadal-survey decadal survey.