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Other stars, other planets, and other life: a primer that goes two-thirds of the way

Niall Deacon: Twenty worlds: the extraordinary story of planets around other stars. London: Reaktion Books, 2020, 216 pp, $22.50

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Champagne, M. Other stars, other planets, and other life: a primer that goes two-thirds of the way. Metascience 30, 153–156 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00593-1

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