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"Sommes-nous seuls ? Y a-t-il dans l’Univers d’autres vies que la nôtre ? La Terre est-elle une arche unique ? Pour faire le point sur ces questions, Stéphane Mazevet nous entraîne aux confins du temps, de l’espace et de notre savoir. Il y a quatre cents ans, l’humanité comprend que la Terre n’est pas au centre de l’Univers. Il y a cent ans, elle admet l’existence d’autres galaxies. Il y a cinquante ans, elle met le pied sur la Lune. Depuis, des robots se sont posés sur Mars… Et nous voyons au-delà du système solaire : les premières exoplanètes ont été détectées dans les années 1990. On en dénombre aujourd’hui plus de 4 000. Au cœur de cette incroyable épopée scientifique et technique, le désir de connaître notre Univers, mais aussi, brûlante, la question de la vie – ailleurs. Stéphane Mazevet raconte ces progrès de l’astrophysique, qui ont bouleversé ce que nous savions du système solaire et du cosmos. De surprise en surprise, notre représentation de l’Univers évolue à mesure que nous embrassons un horizon de plus en plus vaste. La quête de planètes peut-être habitables devient aujourd’hui un champ de recherche actif."

Cosmologie --- Exoplanètes --- Univers --- Espace extra-atmosphérique --- Exploration --- Cosmology --- Extrasolar planets

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Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System. Not content with a conventional discourse restricted to the major and minor bodies, astronomers Hockey, Bartlett, and Boice venture beyond the limits of our system to look at exoplanets and to consider future trends in space exploration and tourism. They discuss not only what scientists know about planets, asteroids, and comets but how the discoveries were made. With extensive teaching experience, their accessible prose clearly explains essential physical concepts. Lavishly illustrated as well as carefully researched, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice delights the eyes as well as feeding the mind. Detailed appendices provide additional technical data and resources for your own on-line voyage of discovery. Whether you are an educated layperson, student, teacher, amateur astronomer, or merely curious, you will come away having learned the most up-to-date knowledge and enjoyed the process.The authors bring a unique perspective to this subject, combining their years of experience in research, teaching, and history of planetary science. Prof. Thomas Hockey is a professor of astronomy, specializing in planetary science and the history of science. Dr. Jennifer Bartlett is an astronomer with a forte in dynamical motions of asteroids with liberal arts teaching experience. Dr. Daniel Boice is an active research astronomer in planetary science, especially comets, with considerable teaching experience.

Espace extra-atmosphérique --- Système solaire. --- Exploration. --- Outer space --- Solar system

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Outer space --- Espace extra-atmosphérique --- Exploration --- History --- Chronology --- Histoire --- Chronologie --- Espace extra-atmosphérique

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Galileo and Kepler dreamed of the possibility of space exploration, although its reality was later underappreciated and even challenged by social, ideological, and scientific critics as a diversion from our problems on Earth. The Dimming of Starlight tells the fascinating stories of how space exploration places us in unusual situations that force us to come up with new ideas about nature. This strong connection between scientific exploration and scientific change makes us aware of a new panorama of problems, dangers, and opportunities that leads to new solutions and technologies that would have been unimaginable under old perspectives. Thus, the exploration of Venus led to the discovery of the destruction of Earth's Ozone layer. This discovery will save hundreds of millions of lives in the coming centuries. As we explore space, we learn to protect our planet from catastrophe, and all the while we change drastically our ideas about the nature of the universe. With its account of serendipity and splendor, the book invites readers on an exciting journey in which, step by step, we are shown the crucial importance of space exploration for humanity.

Astronautics. --- Astronautique --- Espace extra-atmosphérique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Exploration --- Outer space --- Exploration. --- Astronautics --- Espace extra-atmosphérique

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Conquering the extremes: LIQUIFER Systems Group, a design and research firm based in Vienna and Bremen, has been addressing the issue of human life on planet Earth and elsewhere in the universe for two decades. Their work demonstrates how considerate technology-based design solutions and careful use of available resources can enable us to live in space. Their concepts, feasibility studies, and technological developments all deal with the key issue of scarcity that defines life everywhere: on Mars, on the Moon, in orbit as well as on Earth. LIQUIFER Systems Group?s projects range from a simulated Mars mission in Spain?s Rio Tinto region and the interior design for the habitation module of the planned Gateway space station, to the EDEN ISS mobile greenhouse in Antarctica and biogenerative studies in which microbes are integrated into buildings to generate energy and recycle materials.00'LIQUIFER. Living Beyond Earth' is the first book to present the practice?s groundbreaking work. It features spectacular images and visualizations, detailed plans, and drawings that are supplemented with an introdutcion by and a conversation between the LIQUIFER team, as well asa prologue and an epilogue by renowned American space architects Brent Sherwood and Christina Ciardullo. It enables the reader to delve into the visionary world of Europe?s leading space design firms.

Stations spatiales --- Design. --- Espace extra-atmosphérique. --- Architecture spatiale. --- Conception et construction. --- LIQUIFER Systems Group