David Charbonneau

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For university news, tomorrow, chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, Dr. David Charbonneau, will be giving a guest lecture on exoplanets and stellar physics.

This lecture is part of the University of Illinois' Astronomy Department's Aiko Ibben Jr. Lecture Series.

Dr. Charbonneau's work focuses on detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, developed of astronomical instruments in stellar physics.

They are common, astonishingly common.

Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, who co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicines Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy, summarised the conclusion in terms that left little room for ambiguity.

At least one in every four stars has a planet that is roughly the same size as Earth, rocky in composition and orbiting at the right temperature for liquid water.

These were not speculative projections.