DISTANT WANDERERS-Searching for Other Planets-/Astronomy/Telescope/NEW/HB/DJ/Ill

Description: Description: A lively popular book, based on many interviews with astronomers, about the hunt for planets outside the solar system. Condition: Brand new book in original pictorial dustjacket: clean, crisp, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. . From the publisher’s promotional blurb: “hunt is on .. . Modern planet-hunters, working around the clock and around the globe, are beginning to find just how mind-bogglingly exotic extra-solar planets and planetary systems can be. Using an extraordinary array of technologies that is still evolving, they have learned—from their outposts high in the Chilean desert and atop a Hawaiian volcano. from viewing platforms in space and spread over thousands of miles on Earth—that planets outside our own Solar System are anything but ordinary and predictable. In this report from the front lines of astronomical research and theory, Bruce Dorminey shows us that: · Less than 80 years after Edwin Hubble proved that our Milky Way galaxy was not alone, we now know that our galaxy is only one of at least 50 billion—each of which may contain billions of planets orbiting stars like our Sun. · So far, extra-solar planets have been detected by indirect means: perturbations in the radio-timing of pulsars, Doppler spectroscopy, and transit photometry. But direct imaging, especially with the advent of space-based telescopes, will play an increasingly important role in the hunt. · The teams searching the distant skies cooperate with each other—they share findings and research techniques at frequent meetings—but they are also locked in an extremely competitive race that has clearly accelerated the pace of development. · Astronomers continue to debate the frequency of planets and planetary systems around other Sun-like stars, but the number may be much lower than science fiction writers would have us believe. · The discoveries made by planet hunters have shown that we may need to revise our definitions. Huge gas giants have been detected in orbit around distant stars. but astronomers have not yet decided whether they should be thought of as oversized "Jupiters" or brown dwarfs. · Within the next generation, we should have the means to detect life on an extra-solar planet light years away simply by analyzing its reflected light—and we may even be able to select planets that might be good candidates for human colonization.” About the Author: Bruce Dorminey is an award-winning science journalist who primarily covers aerospace, astronomy and astrophysics. He is a former Hong Kong bureau chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and a former Paris-based technology correspondent for the Financial Times newspaper. He has written about everything from potato blight to dark energy. VISIT MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST(Click This Link) PLEASE INQUIRE ABOUT DISCOUNTS ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES Shipping: Free media rate shipping in US. International shipping as appropriate (See shipping and Payments tab on this listing page for further details). We make every attempt to describe items clearly and completely. Please read our listings carefully, inspect posted images of the item, and let us know if you have any questions before you bid. All buyers must pay according to Ebay policies. If you have any questions about this, please email me. International bidders should contact me for a quote on shipping before bidding. Whenever possible, international shipping will be via Ebay Standard International Delivery. Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying.

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