The search for life continued : planets around other stars / Barrie W. Jones.
Jones, Barrie William.
2008
QB54 .J59 2008 (Mapit)
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The search for life continued : planets around other stars / Barrie W. Jones.
Author
Jones, Barrie William.
ISBN
9780387765570 (pbk.)
0387765573 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis Publishing, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
QB54 .J59 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
576.839
Summary
At present we have evidence only of life on Earth. New instruments and techniques are being developed not only to detect exoplanetary systems but that are also capable of analyzing the environments on discovered exoplanets to tell us whether a plan is habitable, and even inhabited.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267) and index.
Series
Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy
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Is there any life out there?
The Solar System
The nature of life on Earth
The origin of life on Earth
The evolution of life on Earth
Extraterrestrial life in the Solar System?
Habitats beyond the Solar System?
Searching for exoplanets by obtaining images
Searching for exoplanets by stellar photometry
Searching for exoplanets by detecting the motion of their stars
The known exoplanetary systems
The undiscovered exoplanetary systems
Finding life on exoplanets
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
What might the aliens be like?

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