Hidden In The Heavens - How The Kepler Mission's Quest For New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
Just finished reading "Hidden In The Heavens - How The Kepler Mission's Quest For New Planets Changed How We View Our Own" by Jason Steffen, released by Princeton University Press.
Steffen, who is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, and a longtime member of the Kepler's science team.
The universe is far weirder than anything we can imagine and when the fist exo-planets were discovered decades ago, their very existence upended the established thinking about how planets are formed.
Using the transit method of exo-planet detection, the Kepler mission discovered thousands of planets orbiting distant stars—a bewildering variety of celestial bodies, including rocky planets being vaporized by the intense heat of their host star; super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, with properties simultaneously similar to and different from both Earth and Neptune; gas giants several times the size and mass of Jupiter; and planets orbiting in stellar systems that had only been imagined in science fiction.
Steffen has done a resounding job of chronicling how a deep space mission originates from it's initial concept. to being selected by NASA, and how it works once it reaches it's destination and what the discoveries in makes means for planetary science.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Heavens...
Steffen, who is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, and a longtime member of the Kepler's science team.
The universe is far weirder than anything we can imagine and when the fist exo-planets were discovered decades ago, their very existence upended the established thinking about how planets are formed.
Using the transit method of exo-planet detection, the Kepler mission discovered thousands of planets orbiting distant stars—a bewildering variety of celestial bodies, including rocky planets being vaporized by the intense heat of their host star; super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, with properties simultaneously similar to and different from both Earth and Neptune; gas giants several times the size and mass of Jupiter; and planets orbiting in stellar systems that had only been imagined in science fiction.
Steffen has done a resounding job of chronicling how a deep space mission originates from it's initial concept. to being selected by NASA, and how it works once it reaches it's destination and what the discoveries in makes means for planetary science.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Heavens...
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