Exoplanets : : Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life / / Donald Goldsmith.

Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of exotic planets that orbit stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy. With his characteristic wit and style, Donald Goldsmith shows how these observations have already broadened our planetary horizons, and tells us what may come next, including the ultima...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Prologue --   |t 1. The Long Search for Other Solar Systems --   |t 2. Cosmic Distances --   |t 3. Early Quests for Exoplanets --   |t 4. The Breakthrough: Measuring Radial Velocity Precisely --   |t 5. Finding Exoplanets by Their Transits --   |t 6. Directly Observing Exoplanets --   |t 7. Detecting Planets with Einstein’s Lens --   |t 8. Two Minor Methods for Finding Exoplanets --   |t 9. A Gallery of Strange New Planets --   |t 10. What Have We Learned? --   |t 11. How Planets Form with Their Stars --   |t 12. Habitable Planets and the Search for Life --   |t 13. Future Approaches to Hunting Exoplanets --   |t 14. Proxima Calls: Can We Visit? --   |t Notes --   |t Further Reading --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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650 0 |a Extraterrestrial anthropology. 
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653 |a alien. 
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