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Author Trefil, James, 1938- author.

Title Imagined life : a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals / James Trefil, Michael Summers.

Publisher Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2019]

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Auburn PL Nonfiction Stacks  QB 54 .T74 2019    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  576.8 Trefil 2019    AVAILABLE  
 LewPL Nonfiction  576.839 T786i    AVAILABLE  
 Northeast HL Nonfiction  576.839 TRE    AVAILABLE  
 Old Town Non Fiction  576.8 TRE    AVAILABLE  
 Rice PL Nonfiction  598.8 Trefil    AVAILABLE  
Physical Description 232 pages illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Summary "It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and communicating (and even battling) with bubbles; on super-dense planets, where they would have evolved body types capable of dealing with extreme gravity; on tidally locked planets with one side turned eternally toward a star; and even on "rogue worlds," which have no star at all. Yet this is no fictional flight of fancy: the authors take what we know about exoplanets and life on our own world and use that data to hypothesize about how, where, and which sorts of life might develop. Imagined Life is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn how the realities of our universe may turn out to be far stranger than fiction"--Amazon.
Subject Life on other planets.
Extraterrestrial beings.
Extrasolar planets.
Habitable planets.
Alt Author Summers, Michael, 1954- author.
Local Special Collection Cornerstones of Science (Brunswick, Me.)