Planets Beyond

Author : Mark Littmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486436020

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Planets Beyond by Mark Littmann Pdf

This book serves as a fascinating progress report on the outer solar system, offering a way to better appreciate the newest findings. It unlocks some of the mysteries surrounding Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — from the drama of their discoveries to the startling results of Voyager 2’s historic 1989 encounter with Neptune.

Author : Oskar REICHENBACH (Count.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025655401

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Two Planets beyond Neptune and the motion of the Solar System. A speculation by Oskar REICHENBACH (Count.) Pdf

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761323549

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Extrasolar Planets by Ron Miller Pdf

Chronicles the discoveries of all the planets within our solar system, as well as planets beyond our system.

Author : Charles Wohlforth,Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804172424

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Beyond Earth by Charles Wohlforth,Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D. Pdf

We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs—Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos—are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth does not offer another wide-eyed technology fantasy: instead, it is grounded not only in the human capacity for invention and the appeal of adventure, but also in the bureaucratic, political, and scientific realities that present obstacles to space travel—realities that have hampered NASA's efforts ever since the Challenger disaster. In Beyond Earth, the authors offer groundbreaking research and argue persuasively that not Mars, but Titan—a moon of Saturn with a nitrogen atmosphere, a weather cycle, and an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy—offers the most realistic, and thrilling, prospect of life without support from Earth.

Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books ™
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512439083

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Exoplanets by Karen Latchana Kenney Pdf

Until the mid-1990s, scientists only guessed that the universe held exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. But using advanced physics and powerful telescopes, scientists have since identified more than three thousand exoplanets. This work has revealed fascinating worlds, including a planet that oozes lavalike fluids and a planet that glows bright pink. Even more fascinating, scientists think that some exoplanets might contain life. Many orbit in the Goldilocks zone, the region around a star that's not too hot or too cold for liquid water, a key ingredient for life. This book examines exoplanets, the possibilities for life beyond Earth, and the cutting-edge technologies scientists use to learn about distant worlds.

Author : Ray Jayawardhana
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400846542

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Strange New Worlds by Ray Jayawardhana Pdf

An insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets—and alien life—beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars—thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration. He describes the latest findings--including his own—that are challenging our view of the cosmos and casting new light on the origins and evolution of planets and planetary systems. He reveals how technology is rapidly advancing to support direct observations of Jupiter-like gas giants and super-Earths—rocky planets with several times the mass of our own planet—and how astronomers use biomarkers to seek possible life on other worlds. Strange New Worlds provides an insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters, our prospects for discovering alien life, and the debates and controversies at the forefront of extrasolar-planet research. In a new afterword, Jayawardhana explains some of the most recent developments as we search for the first clues of life on other planets.

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher : National Aeronautis & Space Administration
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Planets
ISBN : UCSD:31822044013563

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Beyond Earth by Asif A. Siddiqi Pdf

This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.

Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512400861

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Exoplanets by Karen Latchana Kenney Pdf

Learn about the planets that exist outside of our solar system, and the actions scientists are taking to learn more about them. --

Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781613745472

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Beyond the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson Pdf

Tracing the evolution of humankind's pursuit of astronomical knowledge, this resource looks deep into the furthest reaches of space. Children will follow along as the realization that the Earth is not at the center of the universe leads all the way up to recent telescopic proof of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. In addition to its engaging history, this book contains 21 hands-on projects to further explore the subjects discussed. Readers will build a three-dimensional representation of the constellation Orion, see how the universe expands using an inflating balloon, and construct a reflecting telescope out of a makeup mirror and a magnifying glass. It also includes small biographies of famous astronomers, a time line of major scientific discoveries, a glossary of technical terms, and dozens of full-color images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Author : Jean-Marie Mariotti,D.M. Alloin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401146234

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Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations by Jean-Marie Mariotti,D.M. Alloin Pdf

The question of the existence of other worlds and other living beings has been present in the human quest for knowledge since as far as Epicurus. For centuries this question belonged to the fields of philosophy and theology. The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled only during the 18th century, while the first observational attempts for a detection started less than one hundred years ago. Direct observation of an extra-solar planetary system is an extraordinarily difficult problem: extra-solar planets are at huge distances, are incredibly faint and are overwhelmed by the bright light of their own stars. With virtually no observational insight to test their models, theoreticians have remained for decades in a difficult position to make substantial progress. Yet, the field of stellar formation has provided since the 1980s both the the oretical and observational evidences for the formation of discs at the stage of star birth and for debris materials orbiting the very young stellar systems. It was tempting to consider that these left-overs might indeed later agglomerate into planetary systems more or less similar to ours. Then came observational evidences for planets outside the Solar System.

Author : Michael E. Summers,James Trefil
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781588345950

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Exoplanets by Michael E. Summers,James Trefil Pdf

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 discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.

Author : Sujan Sengupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319098944

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Worlds Beyond Our Own by Sujan Sengupta Pdf

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 on the link between planets and stars – brown dwarfs. Their atmospheric properties and similarities with giant exoplanets. All these fascinating questions will be answered in a non-technical manner. But those of you who want to know a bit more may look up the relevant mathematical relationships in appendices.

Author : Paul Halpern
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781570916168

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Faraway Worlds by Paul Halpern Pdf

A introduction to the search for and discovery of planets ouside our solar system and what life may be like on such distant worlds.

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761354543

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Seven Wonders Beyond the Solar System by Ron Miller Pdf

Explores the world beyond the solar system and examines stars, galaxies, and the universe itself.

Author : Athena Coustenis,Thérèse Encrenaz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107026179

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Life Beyond Earth by Athena Coustenis,Thérèse Encrenaz Pdf

An engaging account of our quest for habitable environments, recounting fascinating recent discoveries and providing insight into future space missions.