The Living Galaxy: Winners and Losers in the Milky Way

by Andrea Maria Francesco Valli, Claudio Maccone, Eugenio Mieli

This book describes the possible distribution of life in the Milky Way. Our description is mathematical in order to be extrapolated from what we know that happened on Earth to what might have happened on the huge number of extrasolar planets existing in the Milky Way Galaxy. We use the statistical Drake equation, which identifies parameters for calculating the total number of life forms at all levels. While the original Drake equation (1961) contained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031673239
• ISBN13: 9783031673238
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 200 Pages