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Watson, Fred, 1944- author.
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Exploding stars and ...
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Exploding stars and invisible planets : the science of what's out there / Fred Watson.
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Watson, Fred, 1944- author.
New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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Astronomy -- Popular works.
ISBN:
9780231195409 hardcover
0231195400 hardcover
Description:
xi, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Restless Earth : the way of the world -- The terminator : a user's guide to nightfall -- Starring citizen science : research by the people -- Catch a falling star : meteors, meteorites and space dust -- Radio silence : the quietest place in the world -- The off-planet economy : doing business in space -- Moonstruck : where did our satellite from -- Galileo's crime : facing the Inquisition -- Space bugs : rules for planetary protection -- Climate change : what happened to Mars? -- Not out planet B? : colonizing Mars -- Ringing in the changes : the vanishing rings of Saturn -- Stormy weather : weird worlds of the Saturnian system -- Stalking an invisible planet : the search for planet nine -- Nature's barcode : a user's guide to light -- Reverberations : exploding stars and light echoes -- Signals from the unknown : the fast radio burst mystery -- No hair? : black holes inside and out -- Through gravity's lens : the curious matter of dark matter -- Ripples in space : probing the birth of the universe -- Unrequited love : is anyone there?.
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"In Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets, Fred Watson, an award-winning astronomer, presents the most up-to-date knowledge on hot topics in astronomy and space science, providing a fascinating and entertaining account of the latest research. Watson explains how to find invisible planets around other stars, why dark matter matters, and the future of citizen space travel, all while recounting the seismic shifts in understanding that have taken place during his illustrious forty-year career"--
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