The Crowded Universe
by Alan Boss
This is a more up-to-date story from an astronomer’s standpoint, of the search for extrasolar planets. Alan works at the Carnegie Institute in Washington. This book tells the story over the last decades of the development and research in this field, showing all the successes and frustrations along the way.
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