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Worlds without end : exoplanets, habitability, and the future of humanity / Chris Impey.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 368 pages; ilutratation 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262047661
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worlds without endDDC classification:
  • 523.2/4 23/eng/20220713
LOC classification:
  • QB820 IM34 2023
Contents:
Searching for distant worlds -- The visionaries -- Doppler wobble -- Chasing shadows -- Seeing is believing -- Calling Pandora -- The next wave -- Milky Way census -- Habitability and the exoplanet zoo -- Gas giants -- Ice giants -- Water worlds -- Earth clones -- Exomoons -- Rogue planets -- The search for life beyond Earth -- The solar system -- Sniffing biosignatures -- Send in the nanobots -- ET phone home -- Energy footprints -- The Drake equation -- Fermi's question -- The promise of space exploration -- Habitable Earth -- Space boom -- How to get to space -- Going to the moon and Mars -- Mining asteroids -- Living beyond Earth.
Summary: "WORLDS WITHOUT END: EXOPLANETS, HABITABILITY, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY will present the scientific missions exploring exoplanets through the lens of habitability and our survival in the universe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) QB820 IM34 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000189149

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Searching for distant worlds -- The visionaries -- Doppler wobble -- Chasing shadows -- Seeing is believing -- Calling Pandora -- The next wave -- Milky Way census -- Habitability and the exoplanet zoo -- Gas giants -- Ice giants -- Water worlds -- Earth clones -- Exomoons -- Rogue planets -- The search for life beyond Earth -- The solar system -- Sniffing biosignatures -- Send in the nanobots -- ET phone home -- Energy footprints -- The Drake equation -- Fermi's question -- The promise of space exploration -- Habitable Earth -- Space boom -- How to get to space -- Going to the moon and Mars -- Mining asteroids -- Living beyond Earth.

"WORLDS WITHOUT END: EXOPLANETS, HABITABILITY, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY will present the scientific missions exploring exoplanets through the lens of habitability and our survival in the universe"-- Provided by publisher.

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