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100 1 $aLemonick, Michael D.,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92097090
245 10 $aOther worlds :$bthe search for life in the universe /$cMichael D. Lemonick.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c1998.
300 $a272 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn Other Worlds, Michael Lemonick introduces us to the pioneering researchers who are using brand-new technology to explore the universe, looking for elusive signs of life.
520 8 $aOther Worlds takes us inside the observatories, from the world's most powerful telescopes, situated at the top of a volcanic mountain in Hawaii, to the giant radio antennas in a bucolic West Virginia valley, used to listen for alien signals.
520 8 $aIt is in these places that scientists like Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy analyze the data that led to their discovery of new planets trillions of miles away, and where astronomer Seth Shostak helps run Project Phoenix for the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute. Even NASA has now begun its Origins Program, hoping the search for extraterrestrial life will do for the agency what the mission to put a man on the moon did in the 1960s.
650 0 $aLife on other planets.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076830
852 00 $boff,sci$hQB54$i.L43 1998