Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, having previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Princeton, and MIT. A fellow of the Royal Society of London, he is also the author of Principles of Planetary Climate.
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Not long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system-a star and the bodies orbiting it-that we knew. Now, we know thousands of planetary systems, and have even been able to observe planetary systems at the moment of their birth. This... SEE MORE