An astronomer chronicles the momentous ten-month period of discovery in 1995 and 1996 that revealed no less than five new solar systems in the universe and discusses the profound implications of that discovery in terms of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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Ken Croswell earned his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University and is the author of the internationally successful The Alchemy of the Heavens, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and of Magnificent Universe, a beautiful, oversized book featuring 100 full-page, full-color photographs from leading observatories and astrophotographers around the world, as well as from spacecraft such as the Hubble Space Telescope. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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