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How Do You Find an Exoplanet? (Hardcover)
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How Do You Find an Exoplanet? (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Frontiers in Physics
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Alien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today,
thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements
of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of
planets outside our solar system--also known as exoplanets--has
moved into the realm of science fact. With planet hunters finding
ever smaller, more Earth-like worlds, our understanding of the
cosmos is forever changed, yet the question of how astronomers make
these discoveries often goes unanswered. How Do You Find an
Exoplanet? is an authoritative primer on the four key techniques
that today's planet hunters use to detect the feeble signals of
planets orbiting distant stars. John Johnson provides you with an
insider's perspective on this exciting cutting-edge science,
showing how astronomers detect the wobble of stars caused by the
gravitational tug of an orbiting planet, the slight diminution of
light caused by a planet eclipsing its star, and the bending of
space-time by stars and their planets, and how astronomers even
directly take pictures of planets next to their bright central
stars. Accessible to anyone with a basic foundation in
college-level physics, How Do You Find an Exoplanet? sheds new
light on the prospect of finding life outside our solar system, how
surprising new observations suggest that we may not fully
understand how planets form, and much more.
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