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Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it’s made of and how it might behave. It’s a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may help us an Earthlike planet friendly to life. (Recorded at TEDGlobal, July 2009, Oxford, UK.Duration: 15:52)

How spectroscopy could reveal alien life: Garik Israelian on TED.com

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 7:15 am and has been tagged alien, astronomy, earth, garik israelian, life, light, science, space, spectroscopy, spectrum, star. Comments RSS feed.