New Worlds, Yellowstone & Life Elsewhere

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Marcy's research has focused on the detection of planets around stars other than Earth's sun. His team has discovered 145 extrasolar planets (as of November 2007), allowing study of the planets' masses and orbits.
This lecture is part of the second annual John Bahcall Lecture Series, organized and made possible by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and the Hubble Space Telescope Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

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• SI
• Smithsonian
• Geoff
• Marcy
• Yellowstone

[Zurround100]

I wish the TRILLIONS of dollars wasted on war was spent on science, imagine what we could discover.

[chadami99]

Wow great presentation.

[lupabuatchannel]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing allowing study of the planets' masses and orbits.

This lecture is part of the second annual John Bahcall Lecture Series

[slovakmath]

1:12:50 i find it a bit annoying creationists ask this question as if it were relevant.

[slovakmath]

27:41 lmfao....lame scientist joke lol!

[belgradeboy77]

OMG 4736 views in more than two years .....its just showing that humans are way off course....

[moshaonyoutubization]

Great presentation for sure..

[muzammilali007]

Come on aliens please find us coz we earthlings don't have that advanced technology at the moment and I wanna see extraterrestrial intelligent life to be discovered during my life time.

[Jaydenn74]

Wow what a great speaker!!!

[Ramshobraja]

Amazing lecture, cant wait to see what keppler turns up.