This Woman Knows the Weather Forecast on Other Planets

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Lisa Kaltenegger can take you there. That’s the feeling you get after a couple of hours of conversation with the exoplanet researcher: Whether it’s to distant water-worlds or to an undergraduate classroom, her enthusiasm, patience, and humor transport you. After taking us on a tour of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kaltenegger sat down with us to talk about the latest in the hunt for planets—and life—among the stars, and how she got involved. Movies too. We’re sure you’ll enjoy meeting her as much as we did. Our interview is divided into two sections, the professional (above) and the more personal.

This article was originally published on Nautilus’ “In Transit” issue in July 2013.

• John Steele

  Posted on December 2, 2016

  John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

• Michael Segal

  Posted on December 2, 2016

  Michael Segal is the editor at large at Nautilus.