Sujan Sengupta: Worlds Beyond Our Own

Cover: 9783319098937 | Worlds Beyond Our Own | The Search for Habitable Planets | Sengupta

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Beschreibung

This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system ¿ exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres ¿ if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And what¿s the origin of life on Earth and how did it form? You will understand how rare the solar system, the Earth and hence life is.
This is also a book on stars. The first and second generation of stars in the Universe. But in particular also on the link between planets and stars ¿ brown dwarfs. Their atmospheric properties and similarities with giant exoplanets.
All these fascinating questions will be answered in a non-technical manner. But those of you who want to know a bit more may look up the relevant mathematical relationships in appendices.

Über den Autor

Prof. Sujan Sengupta is Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. His research interests are Theory and Observation of Brown Dwarfs, Extra-solar Planets, Neutron stars and low mass binary stars.

Zusammenfassung

Presents the essential conditions required for the formation and evolution of life and on which planets these may be met

Provides an understanding of how rare the solar system, planet Earth and all life on it actually are

Teaches you about the different planets, stars and brown dwarfs

Entertaining and at the same time informative and thought provocative for curious minds

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue.- Hierarchy in the Universe.- A Brief History of the Solar System.- Climate of the Solar Planets.- Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link Between Stars and Planets.- Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets.- The Zoo of Planets.- Life - A Delicate Process.- In Search of Another Earth - An Extremely Rare Planet.- Epilogue.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Physik , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xvi 154 S. 5 s/w Illustr. 24 farbige Illustr. 154 p. 29 illus. 24 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319098937
ISBN-10:	3319098934
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	86375012
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sengupta, Sujan
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Sujan Sengupta
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.11.2014
Gewicht:	0,271 kg