The New Worlds Extrasolar Planets /

• Main Authors: Casoli, Fabienne (Author), Encrenaz, Thérèse (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrobiology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, current among astronomers, and are heard in their answers to a question already two millennia old: are there planets like ours elsewhere in the Universe? Greek atomists such...

Table of Contents:

• Extrasolar planets: the Holy Grail of astronomers
• In search of exoplanets
• Twelve years of discovery
• What do we learn from our own solar system?
• The formation of planetary systems
• Life in the Universe
• Future projects.