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Indlæser... Exoplanets : Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds (2012)af C. R. Kitchin
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. These days, any book on this subject is bound to be considerably outdated by the time it is published (since the number of known extrasolar planets is exponentially exploding -- see http://exoplanet.eu/), and the writing of this one ended in early 2011. But it is very professionally written and handsomely produced, with technical appendices and many color images. (The text should have undergone more or better copy-editing, however.) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we find them. Until around ten years ago, the only planets that we knew about were within the Solar System. The first genuine planet beyond the confines of the Solar System was discovered only 1988. Since then another 350 or so exoplanets have been detected by various methods, and most of these haven been found in the last ten years. Although many more exoplanets discoveries may be expected to occur even as this book is being read, a large enough data set is now available to form the basis for an informed general account of exoplanets. The topic hence is an extremely "hot" one - all the more so because the recently launched Kepler spacecraft should soon start uncovering many more exoplanets, some perhaps comparable with the Earth (and therefore possibly alternative homes for mankind, if we could ever reach them). Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Life gives a comprehensive, balances, and above all accurate account of exoplanets. No library descriptions found. |
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