Worlds Beyond Our Own The Search for Habitable Planets /

• Main Author: Sengupta, Sujan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres – if they have one? What are the condi...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Hierarchy in the Universe
• A Brief History of the Solar System
• Climate of the Solar Planets
• Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link Between Stars and Planets
• Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets
• The Zoo of Planets
• Life – A Delicate Process
• In Search of Another Earth – An Extremely Rare Planet
• Epilogue.