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Since 1995 we have discovered over three hundred planets around other stars. Think about that; we now know of forty times as many planets outside our Solar System as inside it and the number increases with each passing year. What will we find if we ever go out there? Will there be new, exotic forms of life awaiting our scientific expeditions? Will there be other civilizations with whom we can communicate?
Colorado Rocky Mountain High, I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky, Shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby, Rocky Mountain High, Colorado. John Denver
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Further reading
Planet Quest by Ken Croswell (1999) Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192880837
Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems by Alan Boss (1998) Wiley, ISBN 0471184217
New Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery of Exoplanets by Michel Mayor and Pierre-Yves Frei (2003) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521812070
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (1997) Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0684826976
The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind by Gary Ferguson (2004) W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393050726
Thomas Jefferson and the Rocky Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello by Donald Jackson (1993) University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0806125047
Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest by John Logan Allen (1975) University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252003977
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(2010). Worlds without number. In: Stars Above, Earth Below. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1649-5_9
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