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TitleOne of ten billion earths
Author(s)Karel Schrijver
PublicationOxford University Press 2018.
Abstract NoteIllustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of distant exoplanets come together to aid understanding of the habitability of Earth, and how this guides the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author recounts how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them. The twelve chapters highlight what we have learned about exoplanets and how the lives of exoplanets and their stars are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planetary systems form. Stars provide their planets with light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space. That ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about the history of Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? What does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth and the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life? And how did the globe-spanning network of the sciences begin to answer all these questions?
ISBN,PriceRs 0.00
Keyword(s)1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 3. EXOPLANETS 4. SOLAR SYSTEM
Item TypeeBook
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TitleLiving with the stars : how the human body is connected to the life cycles of the Earth, the planets, and the stars
Author(s)Karel Schrijver ;Iris Schrijver
EditionFirst edition
Description1 online resource
Abstract Note'Living with the Stars' describes the many fascinating connections between the universe and the human body, which range from the makeup of DNA and human cells, growth and aging, to stellar evolution and the beginning of the universe
NotesIncludes index
ISBN,Price9780191793615 (ebook)
Keyword(s)1. ASTROPHYSICS 2. COSMOLOGY 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 5. EVOLUTION 6. HUMAN BODY 7. Life cycles (Biology)
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