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Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 2024
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New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2024. First edition, first printing (with full number line including 1). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher’s price intact on front jacket flap ($30.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 275 pages including index. An exploration of the scientific quest to find habitable planets beyond our solar system, tracing how new telescopes and detection methods are transforming our understanding of life’s potential in the universe. Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger is an astrophysicist and founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, recognized internationally for her pioneering research on exoplanets and planetary habitability. This is her first book.
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- Title
- Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (First Edition)
- Author
- Kaltenegger, Lisa
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1250283639
- ISBN 13
- 9781250283634
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Cosmology
"Kaltenegger's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery." ―Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
"Horizon-expanding... [Kaltenegger] has something of Sagan’s knack for eliciting wonder." ―The Times
"A superb testament to the scientific virtue of curious wonder." ―Wall Street Journal
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search. With infectious enthusiasm, she takes us on an eye-opening journey to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview - planets covered in oceans of lava, lonely wanderers lost in space, and others with more than one sun in their sky! And the best contenders for Alien Earths. We also see the imagined worlds of science fiction and how close they come to reality.
With the James Webb Space Telescope and Dr. Kaltenegger’s pioneering work, she shows that we live in an incredible new epoch of exploration. As our witty and knowledgeable tour guide, Dr. Kaltenegger shows how we discover not merely new continents, like the explorers of old, but whole new worlds circling other stars and how we could spot life there. Worlds from where aliens may even be gazing back at us. What if we're not alone?
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