Life in Space Astrobiology for Nonscientists /
Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life in the universe. The resulting field of astrobiology has become a highly eclectic and interdisciplinary pursuit, encompassing many of the natural sciences...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. 2025. |
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64639-3 |
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Taula de continguts:
- 1. What is Astrobiology?
- 2. Do we know what we are looking for? Can we define life? Why water?
- 3. The cosmic zoo: from our Solar System to distant galaxies
- 4. A short history of Astrobiology: from the Persians and Epicureans to discovering exoplanets and the Kepler space telescope
- 5. The tools of science: measurement, questions and hypotheses. Statistics, good and evil. How science differs from journal reports.-6. A few units necessary for Astrobiology
- 7. The Habitable Zone of our solar system and of other star systems
- 8. Our star – the Sun
- 9. Is Earth special? 10. The evolution of life on Earth, from prokaryotes to Homo sapiens, and its effects on Earth
- 11. The role of an atmosphere: climate and habitability
- 12. The potential for life on the terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus and Mars
- 13. The potential for life on the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, and their moons: Europa, Enceladus and Titan
- 14. The small bodies in the Solar System: carbonaceous meteorites, asteroids and comets, and their possible impact on life
- 15. The quest for exoplanets: detecting planetary systems around other stars
- 16. Biosignatures
- 17. How different could alien life be?
- 18. Stellar types and their habitable zones
- 19. The structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way and other galaxies: is there a galactic habitable zone?
- 20. Cosmology and life: "long long ago, in a galaxy far far away" - from the Big Bang to the anthropic principle
- 21. The chances of finding extraterrestrial Complex and Intelligent life: SETI. The Drake equation and interstellar communication
- 22. Can we reach the stars? Space flight and advanced propulsion techniques
- 23. The Fermi paradox: where are all the aliens?
- Glossary
- Index.