Exoplanets
β Scribed by Sara Seager
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 53
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth.
Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field.
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