Jessie Christiansen

Planet hunter

TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen hunts for planets, seeking to answer timeless questions about the universe.

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Jessie Christiansen is a researcher at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, working with vast amounts of sky survey data to find exoplanets and reveal new insights into the nature of planet formation.

Jessie Christiansen’s TED Talk

Jessie Christiansen
What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe
6 minutes
What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than you might imagine. She shares details on the trends emerging from the data -- including the intriguing possibility of "super-Earths" -- and what the discovery of exoplanets means for existential questions like: Where do we come from, and how did we get here?
Posted Jan 2023

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Jessie Christiansen

Why you should listen

Jessie Christiansen’s TED Talk

More news and ideas from Jessie Christiansen

A New Era: Notes from Session 1 of TED Fellows Talks at TED2022