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Sara Seager - Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
Sun, Aug 16, 2020 · Loading views
Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.
Books mentioned
The GiverLois Lowry
Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the BarrensPrentice G. Downes
Timestamps
- 5:32 - Falling in love with the stars
- 9:55 - Are we alone in the universe?
- 15:27 - Seager equation for number of habitable planets
- 27:48 - Exoplanets
- 34:44 - Earth-like exoplanets
- 40:43 - Intelligent life
- 52:34 - Number of planets per star
- 55:09 - Space exploration
- 57:36 - Traveling to Proxima Centauri
- 1:00:52 - Starshade
- 1:07:34 - Using the sun as a gravitational lens
- 1:09:44 - Starshot
- 1:12:45 - Rogue planets
- 1:15:44 - The Smallest Lights in the Universe
- 1:30:15 - Book recommendations
- 1:37:48 - Advice for a young person
- 1:39:29 - Meaning of life