Exoplanets

Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System

By: Michael Summers

Narrated by: Jon Bennett

Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than 2,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, remarkable in their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.

©2017 Michael Summers and James Trefil (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Good updated look at the science

I learned some new things and corrected some outdated knowledge. Very accessible for the lay person.

Wish there were more books like this exoplanets is fascinating

Narration was good wish they gave more about exoplanets, but I understand the field is changing rapidly would like great narration and more

must read

well written 👏 author very articulated and great discussion on Fermi paradox and extra terrestrial life

Too Short - But What Can One Expect From a New Sci

It will be interesting when there is more story to exoplanets - this short presentation does sum up the nascent field.

Fascinating astrophysics

I found this book informative and stimulating with its tales of exotic Astronomical locales and challenges of our outlook on where and how life would develop.