New Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery of Exoplanets.In 1995, Mayor and Didier Queloz Didier Queloz (born February 23 1966) is a Geneva-based astronomer with a prolific record in finding extrasolar planets. He is understudy to Michel Mayor. Didier Queloz was a Ph.D. discovered the first planet outside our solar system solar system, the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass. . This finding, and the detection of more than 100 other exoplanets since then, provokes speculation about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Mayor teams with science journalist A science journalist (or science writer) is a journalist who specializes in writing about science topics, and thus practices science journalism. Due to this combination, a science journalist needs to be proficient in two areas: as a journalist who can write well enough for Frei to recount his personal story in this search for planets orbiting suns other than our own. The authors elaborate on the ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl of Mayor's and others' discoveries and current thinking about the elements and life-forms the universe harbors beyond this solar system. Originally published in France in 2001. CUP, 2003, 248 p., color plates/b&w illus., hardcover, $30.00. |
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