The Resource One of ten billion earths : how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets, Karel Schrijver
One of ten billion earths : how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets, Karel Schrijver
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- Summary
- Illustrated with images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights 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 lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide 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, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 460 pages,
- Isbn
- 9780198799894
- Label
- One of ten billion earths : how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets
- Title
- One of ten billion earths
- Title remainder
- how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets
- Statement of responsibility
- Karel Schrijver
- Title variation
- 1 of 10 billion earths
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Illustrated with images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights 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 lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide 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, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?
- Cataloging source
- YDX
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- Schrijver, Karel
- Dewey number
- 523.24
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QB820
- LC item number
- .S34 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Extrasolar planets
- Solar system
- Earth (Planet)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- One of ten billion earths : how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets, Karel Schrijver
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 460 pages,
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9780198799894
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
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- 1915889
- 886108
- Label
- One of ten billion earths : how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets, Karel Schrijver
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 460 pages,
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9780198799894
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
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- 1915889
- 886108
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