Searching for Earth 2.0
23:40 minutes
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
Sara Seager is professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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