All these myths-vashi. Scientific search for extraterrestrial life

Where and how to look for aliens? The idea of ​​extraterrestrial life was fascinated by humanity long before the development of space space. John Willis, an astronomer and a popularizer of science, leads the five most realistic scenarios for the search for alien living beings in our galaxy. Describing the latest achievements in the study of the cosmos - the results of the Kepler space telescope, the study of Mars using the Kuriositi Marshod, the flight near Pluto Sunda "New Horizons" and many others, - Willis gives readers the opportunity to choose the right way to detect extramural life. He invites us to reflect on its existence under Martian ice, on the satellite of Jupiter Europe and satellites of Saturn Enzelad and titanium, and the author considers the current conditions on the prism of the distant past of our own planet on the titanium. Willis looks beyond the limits of the solar system, discussing the chances of finding the “second Earth” among billions of exoplanets that probably exist in our galaxy, and also listens to distant space in the hope of hearing alien radio signals