Australian astrophysicist Dr Jessie Christiansen spends her days looking past our solar system for other worlds, and she's in Ballarat to share what she's found

By Michelle Smith
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:12pm, first published August 13 2018 - 12:13pm
PLANET HUNTER: Australian astrophysicist Dr Jessie Christiansen works for NASA on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite project looking for earth-like planets orbiting stars that could be habitable worlds.
PLANET HUNTER: Australian astrophysicist Dr Jessie Christiansen works for NASA on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite project looking for earth-like planets orbiting stars that could be habitable worlds.

Dr Jessie Christiansen is Australia’s own planet hunter; looking for, studying and cataloguing extrasolar planets that orbit other stars.

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