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Lisa Kaltenegger

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Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos at Cornell and Associate Professor in Astronomy. She is a pioneer and world-leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint. Kaltenegger serves on the National Science Foundation's Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC), and on NASA senior review of operating missions. She is a Science Team Member of NASA's TESS Mission as well as the NIRISS instrument on James Webb Space Telescope. Kaltenegger was named one of America’s Young Innovators by Smithsonian Magazine, an Innovator to Watch by TIME Magazine. She appears in the IMAX 3D movie "The Search for Life in Space" and speaks frequently, ...more

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	Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,729 ratings — published 2024 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sind wir allein im Universum?: Meine Spurensuche im All 4.29 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The speed limit on light, that might sound frustrating, is what allows us this privileged view of most of the universe’s past, helping us sketch the evolution of the whole cosmos.”
― Lisa Kaltenegger, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

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“Every field has its own vocabulary, and the same word can mean different things to scientists in different disciplines, not to mention to nonscientists.”
― Lisa Kaltenegger, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

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“The image of our tiny Pale Blue Dot reminds me every day of just how beautiful and, at the same time, how fragile our world is. All that protects us is a thin sliver of the atmosphere. Most of our air is contained in the first six miles (~ ten km) above the ground. If you could go on a leisurely road trip straight to space, let’s say at about thirty miles (~ fifty km) an hour, it would require only about a dozen minutes to pass through that whole region. If the Earth were the size of an apple, our atmosphere would be thinner than the apple’s skin. To survive, humanity has to take extremely good care of this thin layer that protects us from certain doom.”
― Lisa Kaltenegger, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

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