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    Exoplanets (Goldsmith): Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
    Exoplanets (Goldsmith): Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
    Exoplanets (Goldsmith): Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
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    Exoplanets (Goldsmith): Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

    Written by Donald Goldsmith

    Narrated by Peter Noble

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    About this audiobook

    This accessible exploration of modern astronomy and astrophysics explains the science of exoplanets and how their existence may affect the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateSep 10, 2018
    ISBN9781666570182
    Exoplanets (Goldsmith): Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
    Author

    Donald Goldsmith

    Donald Goldsmith is an astronomer and the president of Interstellar Media. The author of Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (with Neil deGrasse Tyson) and The Runaway Universe, he has received the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award and the Annenberg Lifetime Award for Astronomy Popularization from the American Astronomical Society.

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