Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe
Little Atoms26 Feb 2021

Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics and planetary science at MIT. She talks about her new memoir The Smallest Lights in the Universe, about juggling being a MacArthur award winning astrophysicist with being a widowed single-mother, and brings Neil up to speed with the latest news in the hunt for exo-planets.

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