Worlds without end : exoplanets, habitability, and the future of humanity
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
523.24/IMPEY,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 523.24/IMPEY,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023
DESCRIPTION

vi, 368 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780262047661, 0262047667 :, 0262047667, 9780262047661
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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."--