One of Ten Billion Earths: How We Learn about Our Planet's Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets
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Book Overview Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the...
Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them.
The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets.
How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 480 | Language: English | Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR | ISBN: 0198799896
FormatHardcover
Pages480
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0198799896
EAN9780198799894
PublisherOXFORD UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
EditionIllustrated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.75 Pounds
Length8.6 Inches
Width5.7 Inches
Height1.3 Inches
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