Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Preface
1. Almost Everything
2. Darkness and Light
3. The Slow, the Fast, and the Fantastic
4. Planets, Planets, Planets
5. A World We Call Earth
6. Being Conscious in the Cosmos
7. From Many to One
8. The Undergrowth
9. The Emptiness of Matter
10. It’s Full of … Fields
From Nearly Nothing to Almost Everything
Notes
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Text copyright © 2017 by Caleb Scharf
Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Ron Miller
Infographics copyright © 2017 by 5W Infographics
All rights reserved
First edition, 2017
An excerpt from The Zoomable Universe originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Scharf, Caleb A., 1968– | Miller, Ron, 1947– illustrator.
Title: The zoomable universe : an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing / Caleb Scharf ; illustrations by Ron Miller.
Description: First edition. | New York : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017001222 | ISBN 9780374715717 (hardcover) | eISBN 9780374279745 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cosmology—Popular works. | Large scale structure (Astronomy)—Popular works. | Inflationary universe—Popular works. | Astrophysics—Popular works.
Classification: LCC QB982 .S337 2017 | DDC 523.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001222
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