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    Sep 17, 2020 4 minutes

    Twenty Worlds

    Niall Deacon Reaktion Books £15.95 • HB

    Twenty Worlds takes a look at the ways we have discovered exoplanets, planets beyond our Solar System, framing the narrative around 20 alien and extraordinary worlds found in orbit around distant stars. Deacon breaks them down into five categories – ‘alien’, ‘towards Earth’, ‘birth’, ‘life’ and ‘death’ – and then uses these to detail not only the exoplanets themselves, but how they relate to us.

    Aimed at an audience with no prior knowledge of exoplanets, paints a picture of each method used by science today to find and measure alien worlds. Each is framed around a real exoplanet and aims to explain “just how do we know the things we

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