Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
For many decades, we were only familiar with our own system of planets, the Solar System, orbiting our Sun. Now we know that it is just one among a vast range of planetary systems around distant stars. This book explores the nature and variety of planetary...
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For many decades, we were only familiar with our own system of planets, the Solar System, orbiting our Sun. Now we know that it is just one among a vast range of planetary systems around distant stars. This book explores the nature and variety of planetary systems, how they are formed, and how they die.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction “
- 1: Beginnings
- 2: Creation revealed
- 3: Beautiful theories, ugly facts
- 4: What are planets made of?
- 5: A grand tour of exoplanets
- 6: Planetary climate and habitability
- 7: How it all ends
- Further Reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, having previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Princeton, and MIT. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and was a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His work on the fundamental physics governing planetary climate over more than three decades has dealt with Earth's climate over deep time, anthropogenic global change over the next millennium, climate of Solar System bodies, and the climates of the newly discovered exoplanets. He is the author of Principles of Planetary Climate, (2010).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
- 2021, 140 Seiten, Maße: 11 x 17,2 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198841124
- ISBN-13: 9780198841128
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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