Looking for Earths - A.P. Boss

Looking for Earths

Race to Find New Solar Systems

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Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2000 | New edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-37911-9 (ISBN)
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At the end of a century marked by many frustrated quests to find other solar systems, astronomers have discovered Jupiter-sized gas planets orbiting suns like ours in other solar systems. Alan Boss examines how these explorers have profoundly altered our view of the universe.
In the twilight of a century marked by many frustrated quests to find other solar systems, astronomers have at last discovered a rich crop of mammoth, Jupiter-sized gas planets orbiting suns like ours in solar systems that may well harbour other "earths." Alan Boss guides readers into the realm of research, examining how these explorers have profoundly altered our view of the universe.

ALAN BOSS is a research scientist and NASA adviser at the prestigious Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., and has long been one of the world's leading figures in the search for extrasolar planets. His gift for clarifying complex scientific issues for a lay audience has led to articles in Scientific American, Nature, and Physics Today. He has also been quoted regularly in front-page articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as in Time.

Barnard's Remarkable Star. Other Stars, Other Planets. Barnard's Star Changes Its Course. Making Planets for Fun and Profit. I Thought I Saw a Brown Dwarf Last Night. We Know You Are Out There... ...And We Are Coming to Get You. Brown Dwarfs by the Handful. A Fresh Start. Who Ordered THAT? The Battle of Palomar Mountain. The Road Goes Ever On and On. The Swiss Hit.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.3.2000
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, facsim., ports.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 369 g
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-471-37911-5 / 0471379115
ISBN-13 978-0-471-37911-9 / 9780471379119
Zustand Neuware
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