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'The Life of Super-Earths'

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Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, director of Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative, joins us to discuss his new book “The Life of Super-Earths” and to explain why he thinks planets larger than Earth offer the best prospects for finding life as we know it.

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Dimitar Sasselov, astronomy professor and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard University and author of "The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet"

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