Alien Worlds: Your Guide to Extraterrestrial Life

Embark on this cosmic journey as we traverse six extraordinary types of alien Earths, each featuring unique environments and bizarre, adaptive extraterrestrial life forms. We will explore an ocean world teeming with life where little land exists, a planet bathed in the intense infrared radiation of a Red Dwarf sun, a geologically turbulent satellite world, a dying planet struggling to sustain life, two Earth-like worlds bound close together where life has evolved differently and a constantly transforming microcosm locked in a bizarre elliptical orbit experiencing radical seasonal changes. This guide invites you to imagine the astonishing diversity of life beyond our planet, expanding our perspective on the universe’s endless possibilities for habitation and how life could adapt and thrive in these radical environments. Join us on this fascinating cosmic field trip where no sample collecting will be permitted.

David A. Aguilar is an internationally recognized naturalist/astronomer, author, onscreen science contributor and space artist with the unique ability to open minds to the vast frontiers of space and their potential effects on our own world. He is the former director of science information at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and past director of marketing communications for Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. David has written and illustrated 12 award-winning children’s books for National Geographic, was a member of the NASA Pluto Encounter Mission, has consulted and appeared in the History Channel’s Universe series and has been honored with his own asteroid for achievements in furthering science education. He is also the science consultant for the TV series “UFO Hunters.” www.aspenskies.com