The university of niche in belgium. Sean kerry, manager of nasas Science Center at caltech in pasadena, california. Sarah seager professor of Planetary Science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of tech elegy in cambridge. And nicole louis astronomer at the states Science Institute in baltimore. And zach thomas can you start us off with what the big news of the day is . Thank you so much. Ive been associate administrator for the trek there for social science and i am in awe today about the depth and breadth of the science we do here. We are changing peoples lives every day and we stretch our imagination and we inspire every day. Im excited to announce that we have used our spritzer space telescope to determine the seven planets orbiting a nearby star about 40 light years away. As you can see in this illustration many of these planets are in the habitable where water can pool on the surface and in fact there could be water on any of these planets. For the first time we have found ma
Contemporary science is a hotbed of cutting-edge research. Astronomers across the globe have marveled at the first photographic evidence of a black hole.