The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

ISBN-13: 9781472917744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str.

Elizabeth Tasker

Opis

Forget about rockets to Mars--the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets

Recenzje

A precious compendium on what we can say about the formation of planets, and how much our knowledge has progressed in recent years. Nature

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: The Blind Planet HuntersPART 1: THE FACTORY FLOOR Chapter 1: The Factory Floor2Chapter 2: The Record-breaking Building ProjectChapter 3: The Problem with GasChapter 4: Air and SeaPART 2: DANGEROUS PLANETSChapter 5: The Impossible Planet Chapter 6: We Are Not NormalChapter 7: Water, Diamonds or Lava? The Planet Recipe Nobody KnewChapter 8: Worlds Around Dead StarsChapter 9: The Lands of Two SunsChapter 10: The Planetary Crime SceneChapter 11: Going RoguePART 3: GOLDILOCKS WORLDS Chapter 12: The Goldilocks CriteriaChapter 13: The Search for Another EarthChapter 14: Alien VistasChapter 15: Beyond the Goldilocks ZoneChapter 16: The Moon FactoryChapter 17: The Search for LifeAuthor's noteGlossaryFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsIndex

O autorze

Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist specialising in computational models of how stars and planets form in our galaxy. After a degree in theoretical physics, she went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford before moving across to the United States and Canada for postdoctoral research positions. In 2011 she became an assistant professor at Hokkaido University in the north of Japan, and moved to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as an associate professor in 2016.Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for many years, dating back to winning the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers Award in 1999. Since then she has written for Scientific American and Astronomy Magazine, as well as blogs on sites that include Nautilus, the Conversation and space.com.@girlandkat