Searching for Earth 2.0
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One in every five sunlike stars in the Milky Way may have an Earth-sized planet circling it in the Goldilocks zone—the sweet spot where liquid water could exist. That’s according to a new analysis of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Sara Seager, an exoplanet hunter at MIT, talks about what’s next in the hunt for Earth 2.0.
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Sara Seager
Dr. Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics, planetary science, and aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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