
Sara Seager: Is There Life Out There?
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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Is There a Planet Around Other Stars?
I remember seeing that for the very first time when I was about ten years old, and I was shocked. That was because you lived in the city, right? Where was it Toronto?That's right. So the lights in the city obscured the sky, so suddenly the sky was there for the first time for you. Exactly. Did that have an effect, do you think, on your life's work? It did, but it was a buried effect. But then when you really did become obsessed, you became obsessed not just with the stars, but planets. Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun. As the planet orbits the star, the star actually moves because
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