Exoplanets in science and science fiction
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Exoplanets in science and science fiction
More than 300 years before Apollo 11, the astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote a science-fiction fantasy, Somnium, in which a mother and son journey to the Moon and describe the appearance of the Earth from there, complete with observed “phases” akin to the Moon’s own. The purpose was partly science communication: Somnium’s depiction of the Earth orbiting the Sun was an attempt to persuade the reader of the correctness of the then revolutionary Cope…
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