TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORLDS

To Explore Strange New Worlds is the most comprehensive and up to date look into the wacky, weird and wonderful star systems that exist in the Milky Way. Based on cutting edge discoveries from NASA's Kepler Mission, this insider's account by the youngest scientist on the mission, revealing his experience with the inner workings of one of NASA's great missions, tells the full story of how the mission was conceived, operated, and what it found. Underpinned by the rich history of humans' hard-won truths about planets and the solar system To Explore Strange New Worlds will recount how the discoveries made by Kepler (a powerful digital
telescope) are upending what we know of star and planet formation and its implications for finding Earth 2.0, where other life might exist in the galaxy.
In the vein of Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics in a Hurry and any spellbinding episode of Star Trek, To Explore Strange New Worlds is both an enthralling adventure and a map for the armchair astronomer for future travels.
Dr. Jason Steffen is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Economist, The Conversation, WIRED, Bloomberg, NPR, NOVA, CNN, NBC, among others. He speaks frequently about science and technology at university, public, and private events across the country as the youngest member of the Kepler science team. For a decade he managed a group tasked with characterizing the myriad of planets and planetary systems that Kepler discovered; their work changed what we thought we knew about the Earth and its place in the cosmos.