Episode
Lifeslices: Hunting Exoplanets
- Podcast
- Lifeslices with Steve Fisher
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- Jan 12, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2166
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Summary
Philosophers and science fiction writers have speculated about the existence of planets outside our solar system for generations, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that we actually began to find and identify them. [Annelise quote] That’s Dr Annelies Mortier of the University of Birmingham in the UK, who’s here with Dr. Christopher Watson from Queen’s University in Belfast to join host Steve Fisher, talking about Hunting Exoplanets