It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists, Trefil and Summers, bring readers on a marvellous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life - unlike anything we have experienced so far - that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and communicating (and even battling) with bubbles; on super-dense planets, where they would have evolved body types capable of dealing with extreme gravity; on tidally locked planets with one side turned eternally toward a star and, even, on "rogue worlds" which have no star at all. Yet this is no fictional flight of fancy: the authors take what we know about exoplanets and life on our own world and use that data to hypothesise about how, where and which sorts of life might develop. IMAGINED LIFE is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn how the realities of our universe may turn out to be far stranger than fiction.

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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Inbunden
Författare: James Trefil and Michael Summers
Förlag: Smithsonian Books
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 240 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 159x234x21 mm
Vikt: 465 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9781588346643
SKU: 744453