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Upcoming launch of $8.8 billion telescope places women’s leading roles in center focus – The Washington Post
The search for life beyond Earth is featured in the documentary “The Hunt for Planet B,” which premieres this week at South by Southwest’s virtual film festival….
I just remember seeing the stars and being overwhelmed by the beauty and the vastness and the mysteriousness of it, she said in an interview with The Washington Post. Theres something almost terrifying about it at the same time as it being so beautiful, because yeah, its so unknown, and it seems like it goes on forever.
Decades removed from that first look at the stars, Seager, 49, is among the worlds leading astronomers in studying thousands of exoplanets, or worlds that belong to other stars….
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