• We’re Going on a Planet Hunt with Sara Seager

  • May 13 2022
  • Length: 54 mins
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  • Sara Seager is Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on discovering new exoplanets and characterizing their atmospheres. She hopes to find and identify another Earth and searches for signs of life. In this episode, Sara describes how we find planets around other stars and how we can possibly know how their atmospheres are composed.

    Check out the full show notes at:

    www.physicsalive.com/exoplanets

    Learn more about Sara and her work:

    • https://www.saraseager.com/
    • Sara's MIT faculty page

    Here are some of the great resources that Sara Seager suggested!

    Discover some of the great exoplanets we've found at:

    • NASA exoplanets
    • Eyes on Exoplanets

    For instance, you can check out the travel posters for some new worlds you might like to visit.

    The NASA website is full of great information.

    You can also learn more about Sara's Venus work:

    • Venuscloudlife.com

    For some great images, a tutorial on light curves, and the data from my transit classroom experiment, go to the full show notes at:

    www.physicsalive.com/exoplanets
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