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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

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ISBN
9781472917737
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Item Height
216 mm
Author
Elizabeth Tasker
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Topic
Astronomy
Item Weight
366 g
Item Width
135 mm
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is 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. Each planetary system is different, but in the beginning most if not all young stars are circled by clouds of dust, specks that come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth. The changing orbits of young planets risk dooming any life evolving on neighbouring worlds or, alternatively, can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings. Planet formation is one of the greatest construction schemes in the Universe, and it occurred around nearly every star you see. Each results in an alien landscape, but is it possible that one of these could be like our own home world?

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781472917737
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Astronomy
Type
Textbook
Author
Elizabeth Tasker
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
216 mm
Item Weight
366 g
Item Width
135 mm

Additional Product Features

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Elizabeth Tasker

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