Books by Michael Carroll
“Michael Carroll is an internationally reputed space artist, and he’s very knowledgeable. There are maybe 200 beautiful, full-color illustrations in the book. The important prefatory comment is that even though we have 5,300 exoplanets that we know of, we don’t have images of more than 100 of them. Most of them are found by these indirect methods of Doppler radial velocities, and the transit of eclipses. Only a very small fraction has had a picture taken of them and even those are just a few pixels or a dot. These illustrations are all visualization, imagination and projection from the basic data. Here’s the mass, here’s the size, we think it might have this in the atmosphere, what would it look like? He follows that through and says, ‘Here’s what I think it might look like.’ It’s nice to see something that, unfortunately, scientists can’t.” Read more...
Chris Impey, Scientist
Interviews where books by Michael Carroll 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
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.
