Twenty worlds : the extraordinary story of planets around other stars /
"Thirty years ago, the only planets we knew were the ones orbiting our own sun; we now know of thousands of other worlds orbiting distant stars. In this book, astronomer Niall Deacon journeys to twenty of these globes: from giant, blisteringly hot planets orbiting close to their parent stars to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2020
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| Series: | Universe (London, England)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- World beyond expectation
- World obscuring
- Tempestuous world
- Glimmer of atmosphere
- World in reverse
- Flash from darkness
- World you can't set your watch by
- Contrasting sibling
- World like ours?
- Unseen embryo
- World through the blur
- Ember spat from a fire
- Lonely planet
- Dreich world?
- Cursed world
- World that's just right?
- World bombarded
- Dark cloak of death
- World torn asunder
- Diamond born from death
- Epilogue: yet more worlds
- Appendix: Twenty worlds.
