{"id":14611,"date":"2017-07-11T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14611"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:24:21","slug":"video-how-to-find-an-inhabited-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14611","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent overview for a general public audience of the question, &#8220;How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8f5wV4KRZXU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The speaker is David Charbonneau of Harvard University. He gave the presentation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hubble.stsci.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Telescope Science Institute<\/a>\u00a0in Baltimore, Maryland for one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/hubble.stsci.edu\/about_us\/public_talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public lectures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Over the past couple decades, research has uncovered thousands of exoplanets in orbit around other stars. In particular, the NASA Kepler Mission taught us that Earth-sized planets are commonplace throughout the Galaxy.\u00a0 But the big question remains &#8211; did life take root on any of these distant worlds? Using upcoming large telescopes, astronomers will examine the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for the telltale chemical fingerprints of life. The search for life in the universe has entered an exciting new phase.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent overview for a general public audience of the question, &#8220;How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet&#8221;: The speaker is David Charbonneau of Harvard University. He gave the presentation at the Space Telescope Science Institute\u00a0in Baltimore, Maryland for one of their public lectures: Over the past couple decades, research has uncovered thousands of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3NF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10209,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10209","url_meta":{"origin":14611,"position":0},"title":"TESS will hunt for exoplanets starting in 2017","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Kepler space observatory proved the effectiveness of the transit technique in\u00a0finding exoplanets. 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