SIGNS OF LIFE.

The article profiles astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who analyzes photons from the light of distant stars in an effort to determine whether there is evidence of extraterrestrial life. A discussion of Kaltenegger's involv...

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Published in:Smithsonian Vol. 38; pp. 64 - 67
Main Author: Seife, Charles
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Published: Smithsonian Magazine Fall2007 Special Issue
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