Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds

by Christopher R. Kitchin

Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we find them.

Until around ten years ago, the only planets that we knew about were within the Solar System. The first genuine planet beyond the confines of the Solar System...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461406439
• ISBN13: 9781461406433
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"