Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Man Who Looked for Blinking Stars 9
Chapter 2 The Man Who Looked for Wobbling Stars 29
Chapter 3 Hot Jupiters: Who Ordered Those? 43
Chapter 4 An Ancient Question 62
Chapter 5 The Dwarf-Star Strategy 81
Chapter 6 Imagining Alien Atmospheres 98
Chapter 7 Invasion of the Female Exoplaneteers 113
Chapter 8 Kepler Approved 132
Chapter 9 Waiting for Launch 145
Chapter 10 Kepler Scooped 162
Chapter 11 "A 100 Percent Chance of Life" 178
Chapter 12 The Kepler Era Begins 191
Chapter 13 Beyond Kepler 200
Chapter 14 How Many Earths? 215
Chapter 15 What Does "Habitable" Really Mean? 231
Chapter 16 A World Made of Rock, at Last 245
Chapter 17 Astronomers in Paradise 256
Chapter 18 Sara's Birthday Party 269
Acknowledgments 277
Notes 279
Bibliography 285
Index 287
