Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System 9781400838134

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English Year 2011

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler

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Terraforming is the process of modifying a planet, moon, or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature, or e

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Terraforming is the process of modifying a planet, moon, or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature, or e

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Until the mid-1990s, scientists only guessed that the universe held exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. But

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Discover places where a day is longer than a year, where hailstones are made of diamonds, and where a mountain looms twi

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Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outlin

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