A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds – Ariel Anbar
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Out of billions of galaxies and billions of stars, how do we find Earth-like habitable worlds? What is essential to support life as we know it? Ariel Anbar provides a checklist for finding life on other planets.
Lesson by Ariel Anbar, animation by TED-Ed.



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