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Exoplanets : diamonds worlds, super-Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system

text Exoplanets : diamonds worlds, super-Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system

Summary
"The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being di... Read more
Contents
Not your grandfather's galaxy -- Our backyard -- A plurality of worlds -- What is a planet? -- The Kepler spacecraft -- 55 Cancri E : diamond world -- Haven : rogue planet -- Ice world -- Kepler 186f : super Earth, archipelago world -- Gliese 1214... Read more
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218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Publisher
Smithsonian Books 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 523 SUM in Adult Non-fiction Available

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