The Little Book of Exoplanets / / Joshua N. Winn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Winn, Joshua N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 16 page color insert. 37 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter One. Introduction --; Chapter Two. The Old Worlds --; Chapter Three. The Age of Exploration --; Chapter Four. Here, There Be Giants --; Chapter Five. The New Worlds --; Chapter Six. Strange New Worlds --; Chapter Seven. Strange New Suns --; Chapter Eight. The Worlds to Come --; Afterword --; Acknowledgments --; Further Reading --; General Index --; Index of Stars and Exoplanets --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691221175; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319230; 9783111318660; 9783110749748
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691221175?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joshua N. Winn.

A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveriesFor centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them. At this point, more than five thousand such exoplanets have been identified, with the pace of discovery accelerating after the launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey and the Webb Space Telescope. In The Little Book of Exoplanets, Princeton astrophysicist Joshua Winn offers a brief and engaging introduction to the search for exoplanets and the cutting-edge science behind recent findings. In doing so, he chronicles the dawn of a new age of discovery—one that has rapidly transformed astronomy and our broader understanding of the universe.Scientists now know that many Sun-like stars host their own systems of planets, some of which may resemble our solar system and include planets similar to the Earth. But, Winn tells us, the most remarkable discoveries so far have been of planets with unexpected and decidedly un-Earth-like properties, which have upended what we thought we knew about the origins of planetary systems. Winn provides an inside view of the sophisticated detective work astronomers perform as they find and study exoplanets and describes the surprising—sometimes downright bizarre—planets and systems they have found. He explains how these discoveries are revolutionizing astronomy, and he explores the current status and possible future of the search for another Earth. Finally, drawing on his own and other scientists’ work, he considers how the discovery of exoplanets and their faraway solar systems changes our perspectives on the universe and our place in it.