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One of Ten Billion Earths - How we Learn about our Planet's Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets (Paperback)
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One of Ten Billion Earths - How we Learn about our Planet's Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets (Paperback)
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Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the
Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within
the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to
help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these
findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life.
The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of
the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists
concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by
them. The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar
System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the
seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth
for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel
massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that
ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of
planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the
exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out
what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know
about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters,
polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And
what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the
possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of
the globe-spanning network of the sciences?
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