The Search for Life Continued Planets Around Other Stars /

• Main Author: Jones, Barrie W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Barrie Jones addresses the question "are we alone?", which is one of the most frequently asked questions by scientists and non-scientists alike. In The Search for Life Continued, this question is addressed scientifically, and the author is not afraid to include speculation. Indeed, the aut...

Table of Contents:

• Is there any life out there?
• The Solar System
• The nature of life on Earth
• The origin of life on Earth
• The evolution of life on Earth
• Extraterrestrial life in the Solar System?
• Habitats beyond the Solar System?
• Searching for exoplanets by obtaining images
• Searching for exoplanets by stellar photometry
• Searching for exoplanets by detecting the motion of their stars
• The known exoplanetary systems
• The undiscovered exoplanetary systems
• Finding life on explanets
• The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• What might the aliens be like?.