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bridges vol. 20, December 2008 / News From the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad

By Daniela Klammer


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Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
"My favorite planet? So far, it's Gliese 581 d," discloses Lisa Kaltenegger, an associated lecturer at Harvard University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kaltenegger, who earns her living by hunting extraterrestrial planets, explains why this planet - unknown to most of us - made it on the top of her list: Gliese 581 d is a planet outside of our solar system that might hold the potential of being habitable.


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