Strange New Worlds : : The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System / / Ray Jayawardhana.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | With a New afterword by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 halftones. 25 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Quest for Other Worlds
- Chapter 2: Planets from Dust
- Chapter 3: A Wobbly Start
- Chapter 4: Planet Bounty
- Chapter 5: Flickers and Shadows
- Chapter 6: Blurring Boundaries
- Chapter 7: A Picture's Worth
- Chapter 8: Alien Earths
- Chapter 9: Signs of Life
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Afterword to the Paperback Edition
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author