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Sara Seager

January 25, 2018 | MIT Astrophysicist and expert in Earth-like exoplanets
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Sara Seager

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PRESENTATION

Is there life out there? Exoplanets and the search for habitable worlds

Orvis Auditorium, January 25, 2018, 7:30 pm

Co-Sponsors: Institute for Astronomy, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Scholars Strategy Network
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