(Cover image credit: Simon McFadden/Reaktion Books)
In Twenty Worlds, The Extraordinary Story of Planets Around Other Stars, Niall Deacon writes about twenty different exoplanets. As discussed in a prior post (Math Vacation: Number of Planets in the Universe (jamesmacmath.blogspot.com)) in this blog, it has been a bit more than thirty years since the first exoplanet was discovered and in that short period of time, thousands have been catalogued.
In the twenty that Deacon describes, he gives us a nice mixture
of large, gas giant Jupiter-like planets and smaller, Earth-like planets. His explanations
of the various methods of detecting exoplanets are clear and supplemented with
well-done illustrations.
Thirty years ago, only the largest of exoplanets could be
detected, but now with space-based telescopes and improved technologies for
earth-based telescopes, all sizes of exoplanets are becoming detectable and, in some cases, directly observable.
Website: Twenty Worlds by Niall
Deacon
Related posts: Math Vacation: How Many Black Holes are there in the Universe? (jamesmacmath.blogspot.com)
Math Vacation: Number of Planets in the Universe (jamesmacmath.blogspot.com)
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