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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
By Tasker, Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 9781472917720 9781472917751
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Pr.
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Reviewed on September 1, 2017 | Science and Technology
In the last few years, 3,500 planets have been confirmed to be orbiting stars outside the solar system, and 1,000 additional candidates have been identified. Tasker (solar system science, Hokkaido Univ., Japan) describes the theoretical formation of these extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, from dusty gas discs while also relating how exoplanets are detected. The Kepler space telescope, launched in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
