Planet Hunters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planet Hunters write by Lucas Ellerbroek. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Planet Hunters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Astronomers are on the verge of answering one of our most profound questions: are we alone in the universe? The ability to detect life in remote solar systems is at last within sight, and its discovery—even if only in microbial form—would revolutionize our self-image. Planet Hunters is the rollicking tale of the search for extraterrestrial life and the history of an academic discipline. Astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek takes readers on a fantastic voyage through space, time, history, and even to the future as he describes the field of exoplanet research, from the early ideas of sixteenth-century heretic Giordano Bruno to the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 to the invention of the Kepler Space Telescope. We join him on his travels as he meets with leading scientists in the field, including Michel Mayor, who discovered the first exoplanet, and Bill Borucki, principal investigator for NASA’s Kepler mission. Taken together, the experiences, passion, and perseverance of the scientists featured here make the book an exciting and compelling read. Presenting cutting-edge research in a dynamic and accessible way, Planet Hunters is a refreshing look into a field where new discoveries come every week and paradigms shift every year.
Distant Wanderers
Distant Wanderers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distant Wanderers write by Bruce Dorminey. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Distant Wanderers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other planets may exist in the universe, and whether they could support intelligent life. This book takes us into the midst of this search for extrasolar planets. Unlike other books, it focuses on the people behind the searches -- many known personally by the author -- and the extraordinary technology that is currently on the drawing boards. The author is an experienced, award-winning science journalist who was previously technology correspondent for the Financial Times of London. He has written on many topics in astronomy and astrobiology in over 35 different newspapers and magazines worldwide.
How Do You Find an Exoplanet?
How Do You Find an Exoplanet? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Do You Find an Exoplanet? write by John Asher Johnson. This book was released on 2015-12-29. How Do You Find an Exoplanet? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative primer on the cutting-edge science of planet hunting Alien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today, thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of planets outside our solar system—also known as exoplanets—has moved into the realm of science fact. With planet hunters finding ever smaller, more Earth-like worlds, our understanding of the cosmos is forever changed, yet the question of how astronomers make these discoveries often goes unanswered. How Do You Find an Exoplanet? is an authoritative primer on the four key techniques that today's planet hunters use to detect the feeble signals of planets orbiting distant stars. John Johnson provides you with an insider’s perspective on this exciting cutting-edge science, showing how astronomers detect the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet, the slight diminution of light caused by a planet eclipsing its star, and the bending of space-time by stars and their planets, and how astronomers even directly take pictures of planets next to their bright central stars. Accessible to anyone with a basic foundation in college-level physics, How Do You Find an Exoplanet? sheds new light on the prospect of finding life outside our solar system, how surprising new observations suggest that we may not fully understand how planets form, and much more.
The Planet Factory
The Planet Factory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Planet Factory write by Elizabeth Tasker. This book was released on 2017-09-07. The Planet Factory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forget about rockets to Mars – the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was the preserve of science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number rising fast. These new-found worlds are more alien than anything in fiction. Planets larger than Jupiter with years lasting a week; others with two suns lighting their skies, or with no sun at all. Planets with diamond mantles supporting oceans of tar; possible Earth-sized worlds with split hemispheres of perpetual day and night; waterworlds drowning under global oceans and volcanic lava planets awash with seas of magma. The discovery of this diversity is just the beginning. There is a whole galaxy of possibilities. The Planet Factory tells the story of these exoplanets. What can we learn about these faraway surface environments and planetary atmospheres? And do the results hint at the tantalising possibility of alien life?
The Planet Hunters
The Planet Hunters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Planet Hunters write by Dennis B. Fradin. This book was released on 1997. The Planet Hunters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides historical information on astronomy, the discovery of the planets, and the people who have made such discoveries.
