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TY - JOUR
T1 - Planetary systems
T2 - detection, formation and habitability of extrasolar planets
AU - McClintock, P. V. E.
N1 - Review of book "Planetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets, by M. Ollivier, T. Encrenaz, F. Roques, F. Selsis and F. Casoli.
PY - 2010/10/27
Y1 - 2010/10/27
N2 - Are we alone in the Universe? Or are there myriads of other habitable worlds teeming with life and intelligence? These are questions of long standing, going back at least to the ancient Greeks, e.g. Epicurus (341–270 BC) who opined: ‘There are infinite worlds similar to and different from our own’. Until the end of the twentieth century, however, all was speculation because the necessary observational techniques did not exist. It is only very recently, in the last decade, that the situation has started to change. Although we still cannot answer the questions about life, there has been an avalanche of evidence pointing to the existence of exoplanets, i.e. extra-solar planets in orbits around other stars. The authors have set out to provide a detailed snapshot of this rapidly developing research field at a particularly exciting moment in its evolution.
AB - Are we alone in the Universe? Or are there myriads of other habitable worlds teeming with life and intelligence? These are questions of long standing, going back at least to the ancient Greeks, e.g. Epicurus (341–270 BC) who opined: ‘There are infinite worlds similar to and different from our own’. Until the end of the twentieth century, however, all was speculation because the necessary observational techniques did not exist. It is only very recently, in the last decade, that the situation has started to change. Although we still cannot answer the questions about life, there has been an avalanche of evidence pointing to the existence of exoplanets, i.e. extra-solar planets in orbits around other stars. The authors have set out to provide a detailed snapshot of this rapidly developing research field at a particularly exciting moment in its evolution.
U2 - 10.1080/00107514.2010.496573
DO - 10.1080/00107514.2010.496573
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 51
SP - 561
EP - 562
JO - Contemporary Physics
JF - Contemporary Physics
SN - 0010-7514
IS - 6
ER -