Exoplanets : diamonds worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system / Michael Summers, James Trefil.
Title:
Exoplanets : diamonds worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system / Michael Summers, James Trefil.
ISBN:
9781588345943
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2017]
©2017
Physical Description:
218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Not your grandfather's galaxy -- Our backyard -- A plurality of worlds -- What is a planet? -- The Kepler spacecraft -- 55 Cancri E : diamond world -- Haven : rogue planet -- Ice world -- Kepler 186f : super Earth, archipelago world -- Gliese 1214b : water world -- Life on Earth -- The search for extraterrestrial life -- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- The Fermi Paradox. --
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OCLC Number:
ocn950004255
Availability:
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