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Exoplanets -- Extant Life? (Hardcover)
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Exoplanets -- Extant Life? (Hardcover)
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By September 2014, almost two thousand exoplanets -- planets
orbiting other suns -- have been confirmed, among these are also
Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their sun. These
breakthrough discoveries during the bygone two decades raise
questions with regard to the existence of Life elsewhere in our
Milky Way Galaxy. The present book addresses the formation of
planetary systems in the wake of collapsing interstellar gas and
dust clouds, and the generation as well as the survival and
germination of simple molecules serving as modules for more complex
molecular constructs that constitute life. In this context, the
survival of extremophiles in niches on Earth, and the potentiality
of primitive life forms on Mars and the subsurface oceans of
selected moons in the Solar System are also addressed, as much as
the through-space travel of germs, denoted as panspermia. Readers
possessing basic knowledge in chemistry and astronomy will
additionally profit from the text in terms of an advanced approach
towards facts that introduce more complex background information,
in particular information provided in sidebars. However, the book
is conceptualized in such a way that the less scholarly reader will
equally profit from the narrative style by which background
information is provided. Along with panspermia, the Gaia hypothesis
and other historical thematisations of life beyond Earth are
briefly looked at.
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