Planet Factory: exoplanets and the search for the second earth. Tasker E.

Twenty years ago, the search for planets and life outside the solar systems were the destiny of the science fiction writer. Today it is one of the most dynamically developing clusters of astronomical science, and the number of open exoplanets is already calculated by thousands. The discovery of these worlds became possible only in the last decade. Especially the “crop” was 2016, which in a considerable degree was facilitated by the active work of the Kepler space telescope. These new worlds are not at all like the fantasies of the writers of the planet larger than Jupiter, where the year lasts only one week, the planets who are circulating around the remains of dead stars, planets with two suns in the sky and planet without sun. Somewhere there, there are far-size worlds, on the same half of which is always day, and on the other eternal night, the water worlds, the entire surface of which is hidden under the thickness of the oceans, and the lava worlds, erupting the seas of magmas. “Planet Factory” is a story about exoplanets, that is, planets addressing the stars outside our solar system.