Books Details
Author : Sara Seager Pages : 308 pages Publisher : Crown Publishing Group
(NY) Language : ISBN-10 : 43982439-the-smallest-lights-in-the-universe
ISBN-13 : 9780525576259
Books Descriptions
MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for
meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her
unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet, and her unexpected
discovery of new love.Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into
the spaces around stars--looking for exoplanets outside our solar system,
hoping to find the one-in-a-billion world enough like ours to sustain life.
But with the unexpected death of her husband, her life became an empty,
lightless space. Suddenly she was the single mother of two young boys, a
widow at forty, clinging to three crumpled pages of instructions her
husband had written for things like grocery shopping--things he had done
while she did pioneering work as a planetary scientist at MIT. She became
painfully conscious of her Asperger's, which before losing her husband
had felt more like background noise. She felt, for the first time, alone in
the universe. In this probing, invigoratingly honest memoir,
