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Dr Matt's guide to life in space / Matt Agnew.

Dr Matt's guide to life in space / Matt Agnew.
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523.1 AGN
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Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700016733
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ISBN 9781761065187
21235031
Classification 523.1 AGN
Personal Name Agnew, Matt
Title Dr Matt's guide to life in space / Matt Agnew.
Variant Title Doctor Matt's guide to life in space
Cover title Dr Matt's guide to life in space : the search for Planet B, why Earth is special, and where are the aliens?
Publication Details Cammeraygal Country/Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Production & Copyright Details Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
©2022.
Physical Description ix, 259 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type still image
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Note "The search for Planet B, why Earth is special, and where are the aliens?"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note How did we get here? -- Part 1. What makes Earth special? -- Water -- Atmospheres -- Plate tectonics -- Jupiter -- The Moon -- Life -- Part 2. Where else is special? -- Requirements -- Mars -- Satellites -- Exoplanets -- Flavours of exoplanets -- Part 3. Where are the aliens? -- How common? -- The search -- Evidence -- Fermi's paradox -- Epilogue: what have we learned?
Summary Note With a PhD in astrophysics, Dr Matt is a self-proclaimed 'space nerd' and is passionate about communicating science in an interesting and accessible way. Dr Matt explores the qualities that make planet Earth special before moving ahead to traverse what we're beginning to know about other special places for life in the solar system. And what about beyond, in other star systems? How do we even begin to look that far away? Having investigated what we do know and what we're on the brink of knowing, Dr Matt's imagination runs wild as he addresses what we don't know. Where are the aliens? How common are they? Have we spotted any? And if not, why not?
Target audience note General.
Subject - Topical Term Exobiology
Fermi's paradox
Habitable planets
Life (Biology)
Life on other planets
Biosphere
Cosmology
Astronomy
Subject - Geographic Name Earth (Planet)
Solar system
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