One of Ten Billion Earths : How We Learn about Our Planet's Past and Future...

One of Ten Billion EarthsHow we Learn about our Planet's Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets\nAuthor(s): Karel Schrijver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198799894, 978-0198799894\nSynopsis\nIllustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them.\n\nThe lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and w?