THE SEARCHERS: Dave Eggers Writes about Steward Alum Vanessa Bailey
Pulitzer finalist Dave Eggers writes wonderfully about Steward alum Vanessa Bailey and the quest to find habitable worlds with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we’ll find evidence of life on another planet. I’m willing to say this because I’m not a scientist and I don’t work in media relations for NASA. But all evidence points to us getting closer, every year, to identifying moons in our solar system, or exoplanets beyond it, that can sustain life. And if we don’t find conditions for life on the moons near us, we’ll find it on exoplanets — that is, planets outside our solar system. Within the next few decades, we’ll likely find an exoplanet that has an atmosphere, that has water, that has carbon and methane and oxygen. Or some combination of those things. Read the full story at the Washington Post.