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Author: Michael E. Summers Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1588345955 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.
Author: Michael E. Summers Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1588345955 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.
Author: Ray Jayawardhana Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400846544 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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An insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters 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—thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration. He describes the latest findings--including his own—that are challenging our view of the cosmos and casting new light on the origins and evolution of planets and planetary systems. He reveals how technology is rapidly advancing to support direct observations of Jupiter-like gas giants and super-Earths—rocky planets with several times the mass of our own planet—and how astronomers use biomarkers to seek possible life on other worlds. Strange New Worlds provides an insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters, our prospects for discovering alien life, and the debates and controversies at the forefront of extrasolar-planet research. In a new afterword, Jayawardhana explains some of the most recent developments as we search for the first clues of life on other planets.
Author: Michael D. Lemonick Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0802779026 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Unlike competitors in other races, Geoff Marcy, Bill Borucki, David Charbonneau, Sara Seager, and others actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth tells the story of their competition.
Author: Dimitar Sasselov Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) ISBN: 046502193X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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An astronomy professor at Harvard University discusses the possibilities of finding other worlds that sustain alien life forms, citing recent breakthroughs in biology and exoplanetary astronomy, including the recent discovery of arsenic-based bacteria in a California lake.
Author: Diane Carey Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 067104298X Category : Kirk, James T. (Fictitious character) Languages : en Pages : 420
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The "Enterprise's*" tour of duty is coming to an end, but the crew's relief arrives badly damaged and in need of assistance. Before the "Enterprise" can return home, the crew will have to join the bold new ship in facing the settlement's final and most deadly challenge.
Author: James E. Oberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780811710077 Category : Environmental engineering Languages : en Pages : 298
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This exciting new volume presents every ship in which Admiral Horatio Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Includes a comprehensive background of each vessel and the incidents that occurred when Nelson was aboard each ship. 45 photos. 40 line drawings.
Author: James E. Oberg Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 0811710076 Category : Environmental engineering Languages : en Pages : 340
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This exciting new volume presents every ship in which Admiral Horatio Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Includes a comprehensive background of each vessel and the incidents that occurred when Nelson was aboard each ship. 45 photos. 40 line drawings.
Author: Clinton Withtrow, Jr Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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Starseed. The third in the New Earth series, Follow along as humanity fights for its freedom as the world erupts into chaos. Is this the end of days? are aliens attacking the earth? follow several timelines as ASCENSION is in full swing. There is but one way to make it through the coming days. That is to come together in tribal communities once again as in the time of Atlantis. The Grand Solar Minimum is in full effect causing food shortages as well as erratic crazy weather all over the planet. will humanity survive? Will you survive?
Author: Bryan Whelan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524515795 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Here are two more stories about earths future. One is in the near future and the other as far in the future as Earth can get. The Boson Experiment was the brainchild of Abby McGovern, who was trying to create an artificial black hole. Her world was turned upside down when she met someone who was her direct opposite, a ghost hunter. The two never imagined that they would both eventually be chasing the same thing. In Earths End, the Earth is about to be swallowed up by the now-expanding sun. Only three religions still survived, and science was one of them. The two religions, Christianity and Islam, accepted that this was the end of the human race and readied themselves to meet their makers. Science instead proposed leaving Earth and traveling to a distant planet as the last hope for humanity. Just how will they survive the journey for so many years? Will the human race live long enough to reach this new world?
Author: Michael E. Summers
Author: Michael E. Summers
Author: Michel Mayor
Author: Ray Jayawardhana
Author: Michael D. Lemonick
Author: Dimitar Sasselov
Author: Diane Carey
Author: James E. Oberg
Author: James E. Oberg
Author: Clinton Withtrow, Jr
Author: Bryan Whelan