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The Search for a World Like Our Own: Imagine Earth 2.0

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Debra Fischer on Extrasolar Planets

04 min 40 sec

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Astronomer Debra Fischer describes the "zoo" of extrasolar planets and compares them - their orbits, masses, and potential to sustain life - to the planets of our solar system.
Didier Queloz: Sustaining Life on Planet Gliese 581 c

02 min 40 sec

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University of Geneva astronomer, Didier Queloz explains why a recently discovered terrestrial extrasolar planet named Gliese 581 c may be able to sustain life.
Space Artist Lynette Cook Explains Her Methods

04 min 52 sec

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Scientific illustrator Lynette Cook narrates her methods of drawing extrasolar planets and outer systems no one has ever seen.

She remembers the 'old days' of pigmented color roughs and compares that to new digital technology.
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tonywittebolle

Posted: 05.13.09, 04:17 AM

The talk is good, but lynette Cook is the best I think. I'm an artist as well and she gave me inspiration and insight on this matter. check her out someday or now: http://extrasolar.spaceart.org/space.html She does other types of artwork as well