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about the search for another Earth. Everyone invited!</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov 9, Thursday, 6-7 PM in the Planetarium</span></div>
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</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Elizabeth Tasker</span></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">We thought the planets of our Solar System were weird worlds, until we began to see the lands harboured by our neighbouring stars. Huge Jupiters snuggle so close to their star that years last days. Planets are resurrected
around stars that have long been dead. Other worlds begin their nights with dual sunsets like Star Wars' Tatooine or drown in global oceans or seas of tar. Let’s visit worlds more extreme than anything in fiction and ask if any could be called home.</font><br class="">
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Elizabeth Tasker is an associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo. Her research explores the formation of stars and planets using computer simulations to follow their evolution. She is
originally from the UK, where she studied theoretical physics at Durham University and went on to gain her doctorate in astrophysics at the University of Oxford. She then went across the pond to build virtual universes as a postdoctoral fellow in the USA and Canada,
before moving to Japan in 2011. Her book on exoplanets, ‘The Planet Factory’, was published by Bloomsbury on November 7.</font></div>
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Dr. William Newton<br class="">
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Department of Physics and Astronomy<br class="">
Texas A&M University-Commerce<br class="">
Commerce, TX, 75429-3011, USA<br class="">
Phone: +1 903-886-5369; Fax: +1 903 886-5480</div>
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Dr. William Newton<br class="">
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Department of Physics and Astronomy<br class="">
Texas A&M University-Commerce<br class="">
Commerce, TX, 75429-3011, USA<br class="">
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