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As a young girl growing up in small-town Vermont, Aki Roberge dreamed of other worlds. An avid science fiction fan, she wondered if the kinds of planets she saw in the “Star Wars” movies, with their varied climates and cultures, creatures and civilizations, might really exist. Today, and for more than a decade now, she actually explores such possibilities, searching not for parched Tatooine or ice-clad Hoth, but for real exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars. Dr. Aki Roberge, a research scientist in NASA’s Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C., will talk about her life, her work and the latest breakthroughs in this relatively new branch of astronomy at 7 p.m. Friday. It’s part of Wyoming Stargazing’s “The World Above the Tetons” speaker series.

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