Many astronomers are looking for livable, Earth-like planets. Alexander Wolszczan studies the wounded survivors of stellar suicides.
I'm tucking in to dinner with astronomer Alexander Wolszczan in a
bustling bistro near his office at Penn State, and he’s in a cheerfully
gloomy frame of mind. He has reason enough to be gloomy. He discovered
the first planets beyond our solar system but gets little recognition.
His follow-up research has been slow and painstaking, hitting repeated
dead ends. Neither of these things seems to bother him in the least,
however. No, what puts Wolszczan in his intriguingly contradictory mood
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