Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System Paperback - 2013
by Ray Jayawardhana
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"Jayawardhana's small book is a gem. It brings readers up to date on the rapidly progressing quest for exoplanets and their potential inhabitants, and also interweaves the very human details about the people behind these discoveries. Read this book if you want a picture of how modern astronomy and astrobiology are helping to calibrate our place in the universe. A most delightful read."--Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research
"Jayawardhana brings the latest cutting-edge science to all those astounding science-fictional visions of alien worlds, showing us that the universe is every bit as exciting as the masters of science fiction have always claimed. It's no accident that his title invokes the opening of the original Star Trek. In this terrific book, he boldly goes out into the galaxy, showing us strange--and wondrous--new worlds."--Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Wake, Watch, and Wonder
"If you have ever wanted to know how astronomers are going to find an Earth-like planet, this engaging book explains it all. Not only is Strange New Worlds fantastic storytelling about the checkered and dramatic history of exoplanet discovery, but it also gives a compelling description of the path to future discoveries."--Sara Seager, author of Exoplanet Atmospheres
"Strange New Worlds is a very satisfying book that does a thorough and excellent job of tracing the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets. It is the only popular-level book that gives full, up-to-date, and in-depth coverage of one of the most exciting and fast-moving fields of scientific research."--Greg Laughlin, coauthor of The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity
"This is quite a good book. Its greatest strengths are the clarity of the writing; the thorough, technically accurate, and very up-to-date coverage of the material; and of course the fascinating topics the author presents."--Edwin L. Turner, Princeton University
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- Title Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System
- Author Ray Jayawardhana
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Publication date 2013-04-21
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691158075 / 069115807X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.38 x 5.53 x 0.75 in (21.29 x 14.05 x 1.91 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
- Category Science
- Library of Congress subjects Solar system, Extrasolar planets
- Dewey Decimal Code 576.839
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