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An edition of The search for life continued: planets around other stars (2008)

The search for life continued

planets around other stars

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At present we have evidence only of life on Earth. New instruments and techniques are being developed not only to detect exoplanetary systems but that are also capable of analyzing the environments on discovered exoplanets to tell us whether a plan is habitable, and even inhabited.

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Springer, Praxis Publishing
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English
Pages
277

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Origin, Extrasolar planets, Life, Life on other planets
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Table of Contents

Is there any life out there?
The Solar System
The nature of life on Earth
The origin of life on Earth
The evolution of life on Earth
Extraterrestrial life in the Solar System?
Habitats beyond the Solar System?
Searching for exoplanets by obtaining images
Searching for exoplanets by stellar photometry
Searching for exoplanets by detecting the motion of their stars
The known exoplanetary systems
The undiscovered exoplanetary systems
Finding life on exoplanets
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
What might the aliens be like?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267) and index.

Part of the Richard S. Perkin Astronomy Collection.

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Berlin, New York, Chichester, UK
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Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy

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QB54 .J59 2008, QB1-991

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xvi, 277 p. :
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277

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OCLC/WorldCat
228097830

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