Books by Elizabeth Tasker
“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
Interviews where books by Elizabeth Tasker were recommended
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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
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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.
