THE MORNING SHOW
with
Patrick Timpone

Dimitar Sasselov

Professor of Astronomy at Harvard

Author of The Life of Super-Earths

March 26, 2012

In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in the seemingly unrelated fields of synthetic biology and exoplanetary astronomy. In The Life of Super-Earths, expert astronomer Dimitar Sasselov aims to highlight these groundbreaking findings and explain how what we learn in the laboratory informs our investigation of the universe, and vice versa.

The discovery of a New Earth may be in our future. But a truly alien life form is more likely to emerge from our planet’s natural environment or in a petri dish at a research lab. We may cross a milestone into the era of synthetic biology under the microscope. These breakthroughs will shed new light on our place in the universe and answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?

You’ll enjoy this this interview with Dimitar Sasselov as he gives us simple, factual and easy to understand answers to our questions about the universe.

dimitar sasselov, astronomer and the stars, march 26, 2012

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