New Worlds in the Cosmos Hardback: The Discovery of Exoplanets - Hardcover

Mayor; Frei; Roukema

 
9780521812078: New Worlds in the Cosmos Hardback: The Discovery of Exoplanets

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With the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting another star, scientists finally confirmed that planets are not unique to our own Solar System. The quest for exoplanets is an exciting one, because it holds the possibility that we might one day find life elsewhere in the Universe.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michel Mayor is Director of the Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, together with Didier Queloz, he discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) around a main sequence star, and has discovered many more since. His work earned him the prestigious Balzan Prize in 2000, for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Pierre-Yves Frei is a science journalist with the Swiss newspaper, Lausanne Hebdo. In 1998 he was awarded the Media Prize of the Swiss Natural Sciences Academy for science popularisation.

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