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Debra Fischer

Debra Fischer

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Debra Fischer Hunts for a Second Earth at Alpha Centauri

01/28/2013 | 28:53
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Yale Professor of Astronomy Debra Fischer is one of our planet’s most successful discoverers of exoplanets. She has set her sights on Alpha Centauri, where she hopes to find a Earth-sized world in the habitable zone: not too hot, not too cold for life.

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FINDS Exo-Earths Starts Up: Testing the Prototype

Posted 2009/10/30 12:00 CDT | 2 comments

The prototype that Julien constructed in the lab was taken to Lick Observatory, and we had our first-light run with the fiber in July.

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