Watch White House Fellow and Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Anjali Tripathi's featured TED talk entitled "Why Earth May Someday Look like Mars"

http://www.ted.com/talks/anjali_tripathi_why_earth_may_someday_look_like_mars

Harvard graduate student and astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi has been named a White House Fellow for 2016-17. She is one of 16 Fellows selected from more than 1,000 applicants.  Tripathi's biography and additional information are in the White House announcement.   CFA press release: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/fe201620

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View a television interview with Avi Loeb on the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, a project to visit the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, that some of our students and postdocs are involved in.

http://www.newtv.org/video/innovation-showcase/Breakthrough-Starshot-Initiative/

"Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very different. New research suggests that planet formation in the early universe might have created carbon planets consisting of graphite, carbides, and diamond. Astronomers might find these diamond worlds by searching a rare class of stars.

"'This work shows that even stars with a tiny fraction of the carbon in our solar system can host planets,' says lead author and Harvard University graduate student Natalie Mashian....