237pp, 24pp color plates,glossary, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. In this book readers are provided with key insights into the question that has fascinated humanity for millennia: Are we alone in the cosmos? And, if not, how far must we look to find our closest neighbor?' Size: 8vo.

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Title

Worlds Unnumbered: the Search for Extrasolar Planets

Publisher

University Science Books, Sausalito

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0935702970

ISBN 13

9780935702972

Binding

Hard Cover

Illustrator

Lomberg, Jon

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Seller catalogs

Science, Technical & Mathematics

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Synopsis

Discusses the century-long search for planets outside our solar system, including the October 1995 announcement of the first discovered by astronomers and an explanation of where more planets might be found.

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In this golden age of astronomy, new discoveries have proliferated in the past year: life on Mars, an ocean on Europa, and planets around other stars. On the heels of Goldsmith's The Hunt for Life on Mars comes this exciting account of the new planets. Because they cannot be seen, sophisticated methods are being utilized to study these planets, methods that Goldsmith cogently explains in terms of the instruments and reasoning used to claim a new discovery. The burning curiosity, of course, is whether the newcomers could support life: the answer is no; most are gigantic and too close to their stars, and an earth-size planet found orbiting a pulsar would obviously be a crispy critter. Such facts surprised astronomers, upsetting their favored theory of planet formation, possible revisions of which Goldsmith reports with the enthusiasm and clarity essential to popular works. Two dozen colorplates, some imagining the appearance of the new planets, gussy up a wonderful science acquisition for libraries. Gilbert Taylor

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