The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

Tasker J

ISBN 10: 1472917723 / ISBN 13: 9781472917720

Editore: Bloomsbury Sigma, UK, 2017

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Excellent and detailed study of planet formation. pp288. DW in archival sleeve. Dedication on title page.

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• Titolo: The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
• Editore: Bloomsbury Sigma, UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1472917723
• ISBN 13: 9781472917720
• Rilegatura: Cloth
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: As New
• Firmato: Signed by Author(s)
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • 381 April 2014 Debenham

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Riassunto

Forget about rockets to Mars - the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets

Informazioni sull?autore

Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist specialising in computational models of how stars and planets form in our galaxy. After a degree in theoretical physics, she went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford before moving across to the United States and Canada for postdoctoral research positions. In 2011 she became an assistant professor at Hokkaido University in the north of Japan, and moved to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as an associate professor in 2016.

Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for many years, dating back to winning the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers Award in 1999. Since then she has written for Scientific American and Astronomy Magazine, as well as blogs on sites that include Nautilus, the Conversation and space.com.

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