Light of the Superstars is science at the grandest of scales, and it all tells a radically new story in what we are: one world within a world awash in planets. Building on his broadly discussed scientific papers and New York Occasions op-eds, astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that it’s not only most likely that alien civilizations possess existed many times before, but also that many of them possess driven their very own worlds into dangerous eras of change. He points out how dust storms on Mars, the greenhouse effect on Venus, Gaia Theory, the threat of nuclear wintertime, and initiatives to demonstrate or disprove the plurality of worlds from Aristotle to Copernicus to Carl Sagan possess contributed to our understanding of our put in place the universe and the developing challenge of environment switch. And he raises what could be the largest issue of most: If there’s been existence on various other worlds, what can its presence reveal about our own fate?