Public Lecture: How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet
Prof. David Charbonneau - Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture, MCSS, Harvard University and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The NASA Kepler Mission taught us that Earth-sized planets are commonplace throughout the Galaxy. But did life take root on any of these distant worlds? Using upcoming large telescopes, astronomers will search the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for the telltale chemical fingerprints of life.