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Astronomy · Rakiura Labs

Living Worlds

by Rakiura Labs

The search for planets that can stay alive. An exoplanet astrophysics group asking what makes a world habitable, and how small a planet can be while still holding liquid surface water. Led by Stanford Science Fellow Michelle Hill, the lab detects and catalogs planets in their stars' habitable zones and models the interior evolution, carbon cycling, and atmosphere retention that decide whether a world can stay alive. Have the skill but not the path into research? Rakiura puts you in a working lab, on a real problem picked by someone who knows what's tractable, with a group around you. Apply → https://www.rakiura.co

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S1E2: When the Map Is Wrong

In 2013, a group of scientists sat down to redraw the habitable zone using better physics and better data, and when they finished, something unsettling had happened. Eart

Sep 13
16 min

S1E1: The Zone

Three rocky planets orbit our Sun in the region where liquid water could exist, but only one of them is alive. For fifty years, astronomers have chased a single elegant i

Sep 6
16 min

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