Books by Chris Impey
Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has won numerous teaching awards and authored textbooks and nine popular science books.
“The thing one should look for in a book like Chris’s is all the work being done on exoplanets” Read more...
The best books on Life Below the Surface of the Earth
Tullis Onstott, Environmentalist
Interviews with Chris Impey
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The Little Book of Exoplanets
by Joshua Winn -
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Envisioning Exoplanets: Searching for Life in the Galaxy
by Michael Carroll -
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Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals
by James Trefil & Michael Summers -
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The Planet Factory
by Elizabeth Tasker -
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll
The best books on Exoplanets, recommended by Chris Impey
The best books on Exoplanets, recommended by Chris Impey
With 10 billion potentially habitable worlds in our galaxy and 100 billion galaxies in the universe, the probability there is life beyond Earth is high. We’re also likely to find out more in the next five to seven years, says Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and author of Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity. Here, he recommends four brilliant books about exoplanets as well as one about life on Earth, our only example of biology to date.
Interviews where books by Chris Impey were recommended
The best books on Life Below the Surface of the Earth, recommended by Tullis Onstott
The ‘subterranaut’ describes how the discovery of ancient bacteria miles beneath the Earth’s surface opens the possibility of finding life on Mars. He picks five books that show how our knowledge of life deep in this planet could lead us to discover it elsewhere.
