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Preface; Contents; Prologue; Why Care About Other Worlds; Chapter 1: Hierarchy in the Universe; Beginning of the Beginning; Supercluster of Galaxies; Cluster of Galaxies; Group of Galaxies; Galaxies; Stars and Planets; Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Solar System; The Solar System: Our Neighborhood; How the Solar System Was Formed; How Many Planets? The History of Controversy; Aristotleś World: Seven Planets for Two Thousand Years; Beginning of Modern Astronomy: Six Planets for a Few Decades; The Keplerś Laws; Discovery of Jupiterś and Saturnś Moons: 16 Planets
Discovery of Planets Beyond Saturn: Number ChangesEleven Planets for Four Decades; Thirteen Planets for a Year and Eight Planets for Eight Decades; Finally Pluto Is Not a Planet: End of Controversy?; Chapter 3: Our Neighborhood: The Solar Family; Sun: The Parent of the Solar Family; Climate of the Solar Planets; The Earth; Mercury; Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Why Pluto Is Not a Planet?; Dwarf Planets; Pluto; Eris; Ceres; The Large Moons of the Solar Planets; Ganymede; Titan; Triton; The Moon; Discovery of Planets Beyond Kuiper Belt: The Boundary Extends; Sedna (2003 VB12)
Biden (2012 VP113)Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoroids; Can There Be Life in Other Solar Planets?; Chapter 4: Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link Between Stars and Planets; Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link; Brown Dwarfs: The Failed Stars; Climate of Brown Dwarfs; Chapter 5: Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets; 51 Pegasi b: The First Confirmed Customer; Difficult to Detect Extra-Solar Planets Directly; Detection Methods; The Radial Velocity Method; The Transit Method; The Gravitational Lens Method; Astrometry; Pulsar Timing; Polarimetry; Other Methods; Chapter 6: An Amazing Zoo of Planets
How Much Do We Know About Them?Size Matters: Rocky Versus Gaseous; Hot, Warm, and Cold; A Large Variety of Extra-solar Planets; The Hot Jupiters or the Roasters; Hot Neptunes and Mini-Neptunes; Sub-Earths, Earths, and Super-Earths; Planets in the Habitable Zone; Directly Imaged Extra-solar Planets; Diamond Planets; Planets with More than One Sun; Planets with No Sun: Rogue Planets; Chapter 7: Life: A Delicate Process; Is There a Definition?; Terrestrial Life: A Complicated System of Chemical Processes; Life Under a Changing Earth; Hadean Eon: 4,567-3,800 Million Years Ago
Archean Eon: 3,800-2,500 Million Years AgoProterozoic Eon: 2,500-542 Million Years Ago; Phanerozoic Eon: 542 Million Years Ago to Present; The Evolution of Life; Origin of Terrestrial Life; Life Under Extreme Conditions; Chapter 8: In Search of Another Earth: An Extremely Rare Planet; Conditions for the Origin and Evolution of Life; The Galactic Habitable Zone; Age of the Planet-Hosting Star; The Circumstellar Habitable Zone; The Greenhouse Effect; Water on the Earth: Where Has It Come from?; Natural Protection of Life on the Earth; Presence of Giant Planets
Discovery of Planets Beyond Saturn: Number ChangesEleven Planets for Four Decades; Thirteen Planets for a Year and Eight Planets for Eight Decades; Finally Pluto Is Not a Planet: End of Controversy?; Chapter 3: Our Neighborhood: The Solar Family; Sun: The Parent of the Solar Family; Climate of the Solar Planets; The Earth; Mercury; Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Why Pluto Is Not a Planet?; Dwarf Planets; Pluto; Eris; Ceres; The Large Moons of the Solar Planets; Ganymede; Titan; Triton; The Moon; Discovery of Planets Beyond Kuiper Belt: The Boundary Extends; Sedna (2003 VB12)
Biden (2012 VP113)Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoroids; Can There Be Life in Other Solar Planets?; Chapter 4: Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link Between Stars and Planets; Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link; Brown Dwarfs: The Failed Stars; Climate of Brown Dwarfs; Chapter 5: Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets; 51 Pegasi b: The First Confirmed Customer; Difficult to Detect Extra-Solar Planets Directly; Detection Methods; The Radial Velocity Method; The Transit Method; The Gravitational Lens Method; Astrometry; Pulsar Timing; Polarimetry; Other Methods; Chapter 6: An Amazing Zoo of Planets
How Much Do We Know About Them?Size Matters: Rocky Versus Gaseous; Hot, Warm, and Cold; A Large Variety of Extra-solar Planets; The Hot Jupiters or the Roasters; Hot Neptunes and Mini-Neptunes; Sub-Earths, Earths, and Super-Earths; Planets in the Habitable Zone; Directly Imaged Extra-solar Planets; Diamond Planets; Planets with More than One Sun; Planets with No Sun: Rogue Planets; Chapter 7: Life: A Delicate Process; Is There a Definition?; Terrestrial Life: A Complicated System of Chemical Processes; Life Under a Changing Earth; Hadean Eon: 4,567-3,800 Million Years Ago
Archean Eon: 3,800-2,500 Million Years AgoProterozoic Eon: 2,500-542 Million Years Ago; Phanerozoic Eon: 542 Million Years Ago to Present; The Evolution of Life; Origin of Terrestrial Life; Life Under Extreme Conditions; Chapter 8: In Search of Another Earth: An Extremely Rare Planet; Conditions for the Origin and Evolution of Life; The Galactic Habitable Zone; Age of the Planet-Hosting Star; The Circumstellar Habitable Zone; The Greenhouse Effect; Water on the Earth: Where Has It Come from?; Natural Protection of Life on the Earth; Presence of Giant Planets