Recommendations from our site
“She’s…interested in the quirks of the planets. I wouldn’t call it The Guinness Book of Records approach, but there’s a bit of that. She says, ‘Wow, there are oddball planets!’ Then she takes it beyond that, and asks, ‘How do they happen? How does nature make these strange planets? Why are they strange compared to the planets in our solar system? Is our solar system dull? Is it typical?’ These are important scientific questions, but she does have a lot of fun with the oddballs—the planet where it’s raining molten lava or diamonds or the planets that have been stretched into a pear shape because they’re so close to their star. She writes about all sorts of extreme planets that we’ve found.” Read more...
Chris Impey, Scientist
Our most recommended books
-
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene -
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
Of a Fire on the Moon (also called Moonfire)
by Norman Mailer -
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
by Suzanne O'Sullivan -
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits
by Charles Darwin -
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
