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In her recent TIME Magazine profile, astrophysicist and TED Fellow Lucianne Walcowicz explains how her and her team are looking for alien communication in the flickering of stars.
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TED Fellow and Astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz studies the faces of stars to learn the inner workings of their hearts. In this fascinating TED talk, she shares some of the astounding findings of NASA’s Kepler mission, which searches for new planetary systems in far-off space. “In just over two years of operations, we’ve found over 1,200 potential new planetary systems around other stars,” she says. “To give you some perspective, in the previous two decades of searching, we had only known about 400, prior to Kepler.”
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"There’s a fundamental limit to the speed of light, but nobody, you know, hangs their head and thinks life is over. We go on to discover relativity; we build things. There’s a whole new explosion, a revolution in our thinking of the universe, because of this limitation."
Scientist and novelist Janna Levin, in conversation with The Lavin Agency, talking about the power of accepting limitations.
