Worlds beyond our own : the search for habitable planets /

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Author / Creator:Sengupta, Sujan, author.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, [2014]
2015
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 154 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:Astronomers' universe, 1614-659X
Astronomers' universe.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11089106
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ISBN:9783319098944
3319098942
9783319098937
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 24, 2014).
Summary:This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system - exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres - if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And what's the origin of life on Earth and how did it form? You will understand how rare the solar system, the Earth and hence life is. This is also a book on stars. The first and second generation of stars in the Universe. But in particular also o.
Other form:Print version: Sengupta, Sujan. Worlds Beyond Our Own : The Search for Habitable Planets. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2014 9783319098937