Astronomer Avi Loeb Is Here to Talk to You About Exoplanets

By now you ’ve heardthe exciting newsthat astronomers have reveal an solid ground - like exoplanet a simple four light years away . It ’s a hopeful candidate forharboring life , and it ’s snug enough to Earth to make a automatonlike exploratory mission viable within a multiplication .

We ’re sure you have questions — lots and dozens of questions — about this potentially momentous discovery , the hunt for exoplanets more generally , the prospects for future exploration ( or even colonization ) , and the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial lifespan . Harvard University astronomer Dr. Abraham ( Avi ) Loeb , who chairs the advisory citizens committee for billionaireYuri Milner ’s Breakthrough Starshot Initiative , is with us today to answer them .

UPDATE 2:43 PM : And we ’re done ! Thanks to Dr. Avi Loeb for fall in us today , and to our readers for call for such great motion .